Measuring older adults' filial responsibility expectations: Exploring the application of a vignette technique and an item scale

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1026-1045

  Van Der Pas, Suzan ^a   Van Tilburg, Theo ^a   Knipscheer, Kees C P M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Filial responsibility expectations; Item scale; Methodology; Older adults; Vignette technique

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144454747     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164405278559     Document Type: Review

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