Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to explore the level of attitude score of population aged 18-59 toward the elderly and to investigate the factors affecting attitudes of this population group toward the elderly. This study employs the National Survey on Attitudes of Population relating to Knowledge and Attitudes toward the elderly. The total sample size is 9,000 cases. The results of the study indicated that more than half of population has positive attitudes toward the elderly. The stepwise multiple regression result reveals that factors having statistically significant effect on the attitudes toward the elderly are the knowledge about how to spend your old age, education level, living in central region (excluding Bangkok), household income, and living in southern region, respectively. When adding the knowledge concerning life cycle and aging process into the equation, it can make little increase in the explanatory power of the regression model and has a negative relationship with the attitudes towards the elderly.