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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 22nd, 2011; revised September 23rd, 2011; accepted October 11th, 2011. 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 Introduction Findings about Attitudes towards Young People Attitudes are usually conceived as evaluative appraisals The eight years old children in USA held primarily negative (Leone, Perugini, Ercolani, 1999), a person’s favourable or attitudes toward older persons. Three quarters of the younger unfavourable evaluation of a social object (Fishbein Ajzen, sample preferred to be with younger people. Older persons had 1975; Meshel McGlynn, 2004). The attitudes toward youth positive attitudes toward younger pe