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| Assessing shyness in Chinese older adults | | Author(s) | Kee-Lee Chou |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 9, no 5, September 2005 |
| Pages | pp 456-460 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Personality ; Attitude ; Evaluation ; Chinese language ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | The Shyness Scale (SS) is a brief instrument for assessing shyness as a personality trait. The psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the SS were investigated in a random sample of 192 Macau Chinese older people. The Chinese version of the SS possesses high internal consistency, exhibited satisfactory short-term test-retest reliability. The Chinese version of the SS also exhibited acceptable convergent validity with other negative measures of psychological well-being, including negative emotional states (assessed by the Negative Affect Scale), loneliness (assessed by the UCLA Loneliness Scale) and state anxiety and trait anxiety (assessed by the State Trait Anxiety Inventory, STAI). The divergent validity of the Chinese version of the SS was demonstrated by the negative but significant association between the SS and self-esteem (assessed by the Rosenberg Self Esteem Inventory). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060202231 A |
| Classmark | DK: DP: 4C: 6WS: 7DR |
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