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| Utility of the Salamon-Conte Life Satisfaction in the Elderly Scales (LSES) in measuring life satisfaction in Great Britain and United States nursing home residents | | Author(s) | Michael Duffy, Jo Ann Duffy, William Kilbourne |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 28, no 4, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 17-28 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Well being ; Evaluation ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Comparison ; United Kingdom ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The comparative utility and reliability of the Salamon-Conte Life Satisfaction in the Elderly Scales (LSES) in measuring life satisfaction in comparable samples of UK and US nursing home residents was examined. Included in this study were 100 residents from 15 UK nursing homes and 207 residents from 10 US nursing homes. As well as an overall measure of life satisfaction, the LSES gives a multidimensional portrait of 8 dimensional subscales. The LSES proved convenient and user-friendly to administer by the trained interviewers in a one-to-one verbal administration fashion and a novel method of handling a 5-point Likert scaling was found successful. Results indicated no significant differences between the samples on the relevant demographic variables. Reliabilities on the original 8-factor scale were high for the overall scales with Crohnbach Alpha reliability coefficients of .92 for the US sample and .90 for the UK sample. A Lisrel approach was used to determine the best fitting scale. Subsequent analysis compared the scale across the two countries. The results revealed a shorter 5-factor scale which was invariant across UK and US samples and which is well-adjusted to measuring life satisfaction in nursing home residents. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061023002 A |
| Classmark | D:F:5HH: 4C: KX: LHB: 48: 8: 7T |
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