Assessment of the refined aging semantic differential: Recommendations for enhancing validity

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 304-318

  Gonzales, Ernest ^a   Tan, Jing ^b   Morrow Howell, Nancy ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageism; Attitudes; Instrument; Measurement; Scale; Structural equation modeling; The aging semantic differential; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; ETHICS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL PROFESSION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGING; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL; STEREOTYPING; STUDENTS, HEALTH OCCUPATIONS;

EID: 77952370939     PISSN: 01634372     EISSN: 15404048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01634371003715791     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Alford, C., Miles, T., Palmer, R., & Espino, D. (2001). An introduction to geriatrics for first-year medical students. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 49, 782-787.
2. Anderson, D., & Wiscott, R. (2003). Comparing social work and non-social work students' attitudes about aging: Implications to promote work with elders. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 42(2), 21-36.
3. Angiullo, L., Whitbourne, S., & Powers, C. (1996). The effects of instruction and experience on college students' attitudes toward the elderly. Educational Gerontology, 22, 483-495.
4. Bollen, K. (1989). Structural equations with latent variables. New York: John, Wiley and Sons.
5. Butler, R. (1969). Ageism: Another form of bigotry. Gerontologist, 9, 243-246.
6. Fitzgerald, J., Wray, L., Halter, J., Williams, B., & Supiano, M. (2003). Relating medical students' knowledge, attitudes, and experience to an interest in geriatric medicine. Gerontologist, 43, 849-855.
7. Flood, M. T., & Clark, R. B. (2009). Exploring knowledge and attitudes toward aging among nursing and nonnursing students. Educational Gerontology, 35, 587-595.
8. Flora, D. B., & Curran, P.J. (2004). An empirical evaluation of alternative methods of estimation for confirmatory factor analysis with ordinal data. Psychological Methods, 9, 466-491.
9. Gellis, Z. D., Sherman, S., & Lawrance, F. (2003). First year graduate social work students' knowledge of and attitude toward older adults. Educational Gerontology, 29, 1-16.
10. Holtzman, J. M., Beck, J. D., & Kerber, P. E. (1979). Dimensional aspects of attitudes toward the aged [Abstract]. Gerontologist, 19, 91.
11. Hughes, N., Soiza, R., Chua, M., Hoyle, G., MacDonald, A., Primsrose, W., & Seymour, D. (2008). Medical student attitudes toward older people and willingness to consider a career in geriatric medicine. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 56, 334-338.
12. Iwasaki, M., & Jones, J. (2008) Attitudes toward older adults: A reexamination of two major scales. Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 29, 139-157.
13. Jansen, D. A., & Morse, W. A. (2004). Positively influencing student nurse attitudes toward caring for the elderly: Results of a curriculum assessment study. Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 25(2), 2-14.
14. Joreskog, K. G. (1969). A general approach to confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analysis. Psychometrika, 34, 183-202.
15. Joreskog, K. G., & Sorbom, D. (1981). LISREL V: Analysis of Linear structural Relations by the Method of Maximum Likelihood. Chicago: International Educational Services.
16. Kearney, N., Miller, M., Paul, J., & Smith, K. (2000). Oncology healthcare professionals' attitudes toward elderly people. Annals of Oncology, 11, 599-601.
17. Kline, R. B. (2005). Principles and practice of structural equation modeling (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford.
18. Knapp, J., & Stubblefield, P. (2000). Changing students' perceptions of aging: The impact of an intergenerational service learning course. Educational Gerontology, 26, 611-621.
19. Maxwell, J. A. (2005). Qualitative research design: An interactive approach (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
20. Moriello, G. R., Smey, J. W., Pescatello, L. S., & Murphy, M. A. (2005). Influence of an educational intervention on pre-allied health students' attitudes toward older adults. Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 25(3), 1-11.
21. Mulaik, S., James, L., Van Alstine, J., Bennett, N., Lind, S., & Stilwell, C. D. (1989). Evaluation of goodness-of-fit indices for structural equation models. Psychological Bulletin, 105, 430-455.
22. Muthén, B., du Toit, S. H. C., & Spisic, D. (1997). Robust inference using weighted least squares and quadratic estimating equations in latent variable modeling with categorical and continuous outcomes. Unpublished manuscript.
23. Olson, C. J. (2002). A curriculum module enhances students' gerontological practicerelated knowledge and attitudes. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 38(4), 85-102.
24. Osgood, C. E., & Suci, G. J. (1955). Factor analysis of meaning. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 50, 325-338.
25. Osgood, C. E., Suci, G. J., & Tannenbaum, P. H. (1957). The measurement of meaning. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
26. Osgood, N. J. (1996). Society does not respect the elderly. In C. P. Cozic (Ed.), An aging population: Opposing viewpoints (pp. 173-187). San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press.
27. Palmore, E. B. (1999). Ageism: Negative and positive (2nd ed.). New York: Springer.
28. Polizzi, K. (2003). Assessing attitudes toward the elderly: Polizzi's refined version of the Aging Semantic Differential. Educational Gerontology, 29, 197-216.
29. Polizzi, K., & Millikin, R. (2002). Attitudes toward the elderly: Identifying problematic usage of ageist and overextended terminology in research instructions. Educational Gerontology, 28, 367-377.
30. Polizzi, K., & Steitz, J. (1998). Examining the Aging Semantic Differential: Suggestions for refinement. Educational Gerontology, 24, 207-223.
31. Ragan, A., & Bowen, A. (2001). Improving attitudes regarding the elderly population: The effects of information and reinforcement for change. Gerontologist, 41, 511-515.
32. Roberts, E., Richeson, N., Thornhill, J. Corwin, S., & Eleazer, P. (2006). The senior mentor program at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine: An innovative geriatric longitudinal curriculum. Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 27(2), 11-23.
33. Rosencranz, H., & McNevin, T. (1969). A factor analysis of attitudes toward the aged. Gerontologist, 9, 55-59.
34. Schumacker, R., & Lomax, R. (2004). A beginner's guide to structural equation modeling (2nd ed.). New York: Taylor & Francis.
35. Steiger, J. (1990). Structural model evaluation and modification: An interval estimation approach. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 25, 173-180.
36. Stewart, T., Eleazer, G., Boland, R., & Wieland, G. (2007). The middle of the road: Results from the Aging Semantic Differential with four cohorts of medical students. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 55, 1275-1280.
37. Underwood, D. V., Eklund, S. J., & Whisler, S. (1985). A reexamination of the factor structure of the semantic deferential using a generalized social object. Educational Gerontology, 11, 321-335.
38. Westmoreland, G. R., Counsell, S. R., Schubert, Y. C., Frank, K. I., Wu, J., Frankel, R. M., et al. (2009). Improving medical student attitudes toward older patients through a "council of elders" and reflective writing experience. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 57, 315-320.
39. Wilkinson, T., Gower, S., & Sainsbury, R. (2002). The earlier, the better: The effect of early community contact on the attitudes of medical students to older people. Medical Education, 36, 540-542.
40. Zuilen, M., Rubert, M., Silverman, M., & Lewis, J. (2001). Medical students' positive and negative misconceptions about the elderly: The impact of training in geriatrics. Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 21(3), 31-40.