Can Well‐Being, Positive Affect, or Contact with the Elderly Be Potential Predictors of Attitudes towards Older People? A Study on the Polish Population

Objectives: . During the research, we collected information from 923 participants and we used the following tools: demographic questionnaire, Kogan's Attitudes Toward Old People Scale, Euthymia Scale, WHO-5 Well-Being Index, and the author's questionnaire on contacts with an elderly person. Results: We used R 4.0.2 to analyse the data. In our current model study, we did not observe statistically significant relationships between the WHO-5 or ES scores and the KOAP score. Conclusions: The conducted study did not show any correlation between mood, sense of well-being, or contact with the elderly and attitude towards the elderly. The results of our study may become the basis for further research to find the relationship between the mood and well-being shown in attitudes towards the elderly. Perhaps, however, the assumption should also be made that there is no such relationship.