Question 100 marks

Ageism (i.e., stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination against older individuals) has beenshown to have negative effects on both young and old adults. To reduce ageism, severalstudies have recognised the importance of facilitating interactions between young and oldemployeesat work.

Inarecentcross-sectionalstudyonDanishworkingadults,researchersexaminedtheassociation between age-based attitudes in the workplace and self-perceived ageing, workengagement and the intention to leave. They found that adults who work in an inclusiveorganisation without ageism tend to view their ageing more favourably, are more engaged atwork, and areless likelyto leavetheirjobs.

Tybjerg-Jeppesen, A., Conway, P. M., Ladegaard, Y., & Jensen, C. G. (2023). Is a positiveintergenerationalworkplaceclimateassociatedwithbetterself-perceivedagingandworkplaceoutcomes?Across-sectionalstudyofarepresentativesampleoftheDanishworking population.Journal of Applied Gerontology.https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648231162616

Analyse and critique the study in the journal article above. You are required to apply relevantconcepts and information from the course materials, given journal article, and additionalresearchto answer the followingquestions.

a.Accordingtothejournalarticle,theresearchershavecollecteddataviaasurvey.Inthecontextof the given study:

• Identifyanddiscuss TWOpotentialsources ofmeasurementerror.
• Discusshowyouwouldminimisethesepotentialsourcesofmeasurementerrorthatyouhaveidentified.

b. Usingthecontext ofthe givenstudy:

• Describealikely sampling strategy andrecruitmentmethodthatwasusedinthisstudy.
• Discusshowit coulddiffer fromsamplinginqualitative research.

c.Propose a focus group research study to supplement the findings from the given study.Focusyourdiscussiononthekeyelementsinfocusgroupresearch.YouareNOTrequiredto proposequestions forthe focusgroupsession(s).

d. In addition, using the context of the given study and your proposed focus groupresearch study, examine ONEadvantage and ONEdisadvantage of conducting focusgroups compared to a survey.