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Psychology 2011. Vol.2, No.7, 669-673 Copyright ? 2011 SciRes. DOI:10.4236/psych.2011.27102 Attitudes towards Young People in Bulgaria Stanislava Stoyanova Department of Psychology, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Email: avka@swu.bg Received August 22 , 2011; revised September 23 , 2011; accepted October 11 , 2011. nd rd th This paper presents a study of the stereotypes of and attitudes towards young people in Bulgaria. The method was developed on the basis of Fishbein’s and Ajzen theory and using several coding matrices for content analy- sis by a group of psychologists during the summer school “Social cognition” held in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria in July 2010. The social involvement of young people, life satisfaction and family issues were studied. Keywords: Attitudes, Youth, Life Satisfaction, Social Involvement Findings about Attitudes towards Young People Introduction The eight years old children in USA held primarily negative attitudes toward older persons. Three quarters of the younger sample preferred to be with younger people. Older persons had positive attitudes toward younger persons. Older persons’ atti- tudes toward young people (age 11 - 13) became significantly more positive after a long contact with them (for several weeks in the process of cross-age education) (Meshel McGlynn, 2004). Attitudes are usually conceived as evaluative appraisals (Leone, Perugini, Ercolani, 1999), a person’s favourable or unfavourable evaluation of a social object (Fishbein Ajzen, 1975; Meshel McGlynn, 2004). The attitudes toward youth include the image of a young person—student, the intentions to interact with a young person—student, the beliefs that young people—students can take part in academic and non-academic classes (Siper