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The purpose of this study was to examine attitudes of college students and senior citizens towards each other by incorporating successful components of a senior citizens' music program into the "Adopt-A-Choir" program established in a university music education/therapy program. Data collection was accomplished using the Age Group Evaluation and Description Inventory (AGED), providing insight into attitudes classified in 4 domains/evaluative scales: Goodness, Positiveness, Vitality, and Maturity. Subjects ware members of the Senior Singers (n = 15, 15) and music education/therapy students enrolled in the Woman's Glee Club at a local university (n = 15, 12). Results of the pre/post AGED survey warn compared using the Wilcoxon Matched Pairs test, with means increasing significantly for the four domains (p <.02). Gains were greatest for the seniors, suggesting a stronger move from negative to positive attitudes. Though the gains were smaller with the university students, all changes were positive, with one exception: in the "vitality" domain, university student attitude ratings decreased on the continuum for "timid-assertive." Informal predictors further suggested the partnership between seniors and university students was enjoyed by both sets of participants.
John Waite Bowers (Sun,) studied this question.