The attitudes to ageing questionnaire: Mokken scaling analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Shenkin, Susan D ^a   Watson, Roger ^b   Laidlaw, Ken ^c   Starr, John M ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AGING; ATTITUDE TO AGING QUESTIONNAIRE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATENT PERIOD; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOKKEN SCALING; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RELIABILITY; AGING; ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84902491587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099100     Document Type: Article

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