Development and validation of the Brazilian version of the attitudes to aging questionnaire (AAQ): An example of merging classical psychometric theory and the rasch measurement model

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Chachamovich, Eduardo ^a,b   Fleck, Marcelo P ^a   Trentini, Clarissa M ^a   Laidlaw, Ken ^b   Power, Mick J ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AGING; ATTITUDE TO AGING QUESTIONNAIRE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CULTURAL BIAS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASCH ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; AGING; ATTITUDE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE; BRAZIL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 40449120236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-6-6     Document Type: Article

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