Turkish University Students’ Self-Perceptions of Aging: An Analysis Over Socio-Economic Dimensions
Aynur Yumurtaci and
Bilal Bagis
No 391, GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Abstract:
University students represent nearly more than half of the youth population (age group of 15-24) in Turkey. Meanwhile, the latest demographic data shows that they will constitute a majority of the elder generation in the context of the recent rapid aging trend in the near future. That said, and although the number of studies related to the students’ perceptions of old ages are increasing in recent years, there is still room to extend our understanding of the influence of demographics, social and economic patterns on students’ self perceptions of old age. To investigate the Turkish students’ views towards their own 65+ ages, a questionary is applied to 450 students from two different universities located in different regions in Turkey. Survey analysis shows that, almost 85 percent of “engineering” and “economics and administrative science” faculty students describe health and elderly care as the two major concerns in their old ages. On the contrary, answers of the two faculties differentiated clearly in terms of happiness, ability to save more and living with someone else in their old ages. Also, students accept retirement period as a reflection of aging and most of the students claim they had never thought about the aging process before. Yet, female and male students describe the meaning of retirement as the most comfortable period and a period that makes no sense, respectively.
Keywords: University Students; Turkey; Aging; Perceptions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 J0 J1 Z19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age and nep-ara
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:
Downloads: (external link)
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/202327/1/GLO-DP-0391.pdf (application/pdf)
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:glodps:391
Access Statistics for this paper
More papers in GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (econstor@zbw-workspace.eu).