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The attitudes to ageing questionnaire (AAQ)
— development and psychometric properties | | Author(s) | K Laidlaw, M J Power, S Schmidt |
| Corporate Author | World Health Organization Quality of Life Group - WHOQOL-OLD Group |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 22, no 4, April 2007 |
| Pages | pp 367-379 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Mental health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Evaluation ; International. |
| Annotation | The Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire (AAQ) is a self-report measure with which older people themselves can express their attitudes to the process of ageing. The development of the AAQ followed a coherent, logical and empirical process taking full account of relevant gerontological knowledge and modern and classical psychometric analytical methods. Pilot testing with 1356 participants from 15 centres worldwide refined the scale and provided the basis for a field test. A total of 5566 participants from 25 centres worldwide contributed to further developments of this new scale with the derivation involving both classical and modern psychometric methods. The result is a 25-item cross-cultural attitudes to ageing questionnaire consisting of a 3-factor model encompassing psychological growth, psychosocial loss and physical change. The 3-factor model suggests a way of conceptualising and measuring successful ageing in individuals. The AAQ provides researchers, clinicians and policy makers with a unique scale to measure the impact of successful ageing interventions. It also provides a way of measuring how individuals age across cultures and under different economic, political and social circumstances. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070627217 A |
| Classmark | D: F:59: 4C: 72 |
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