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KMID : 0379220130330020475
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2013 Volume.33 No. 2 p.475 ~ p.492
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Effect of Authoritarian Personality of the Middle-aged on Ageism Mediated by Rationalization, Cognitive Distortion and Ambiguity Intolerance
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Shin Hak-Gene
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Abstract
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The present study empirically confirmed authoritarian personality, rationalization, cognitive distortion and ambiguity intolerance were predictors affecting the middle-aged Korean`s ageism against the elderly and verified mediating role of rationalization, cognitive distortion and ambiguity intolerance between authoritarian personality and ageism. To investigate causalities of factors, we purposively collected a sample of 400 cases from 20 dongs randomly selected in Jeonju and 342 cases, survived the data cleaning such as missing values, outliers, normality and multicollinearity, were analyzed by frequency, factor analysis, reliability, confirmatory factor analysis and structural model analysis. Followed were the selected contributions of the present study. First, authoritarian personality was a predictor of rationalization, cognitive distortion and ambiguity intolerance. Second, rationalization was a predictor of ambiguity intolerance and ageism. Third, cognitive distortion was a predictor of ambiguity intolerance which was a predictor of ageism. Thus, cognitive distortion was an indirect predictor of ageism mediated by ambiguity intolerance. Fourth, authoritarian personality was a predictor of ageism mediated by rationalization, cognitive distortion and ambiguity intolerance. The contributions suggested assessment of ageist`s authoritarian personality, rationalization, cognitive distortion and ambiguity intolerance before intervening would provide significantly better leverage of engagement in ageism of the middle aged and also would lead to evidence based practice.
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KEYWORD
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authoritarian personality, rationalization, cognitive distortion, ambiguity intolerance, ageism
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