Reliability and validity of the Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire (AAQ) in older people in Spain

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 490-499

  Lucas Carrasco, Ramona ^a   Laidlaw, Ken ^b   Gómez Benito, Juana ^a   Power, Michael J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire (AAQ); elderly; reliability; validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AGING; ATTITUDE TO AGING QUESTIONNAIRE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SPAIN; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 84873882203     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610212001809     Document Type: Article

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