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Responses from 255 black and white male and female children were used to identify three subdimensions in a 25-item index designed to measure children's perceptions: (1) personality characteristics, (2) affective relations, and (3) physical abilities. Differences in the subdimensions of children's perceptions by the sex of the children and the sex and age of older adults are discussed, and implications for research on children's perceptions of aging are presented.
Mitchell et al. (Mon,) studied this question.