Image of older people

This research project investigates the image of older people from the perspective of younger individuals, older individuals and general population. It combines semi-structured interviewing, surveys and implicit association tests (among other methods). The available dataset concerns a survey consisting of several questionnaires (see protocol) among first year medical students. The protocol is written in Dutch and most variables and variable labels are written in Dutch as well. Variables related to the open questions are not included in this dataset. The MEAN_DOWSD variables contain values automatically generated by SPSS when performing the principal component analysis. The Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing provided the data in .sav format. DANS added the .dta and .por format.