The Psychometric Features of the Turkish Version of the Ageism Survey and the Frequency of Ageism

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• 作者：Saime Erol ; ^{saimeerol@hotmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Ayse Ergun ; Hasibe Kadıoglu ; Kamer Gur ; Sevil Albayrak ; Fatma Nevin Şişman ; Ayse Sezer ; Nurcan Kolac
• 关键词：ageism ; instrument ; prevalence ; reliability ; validity
• 刊名：International Journal of Gerontology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：10
• 期：3
• 页码：170-174
• 全文大小：201 K

文摘

This study was conducted to adapt the ageism survey to the Turkish language and culture and to determine the frequency of occurrence of ageism.

Methods

The study population consisted of 236 individuals aged 50–95 years. The cultural adaptation of the ageism survey was carried out through the method of translation/back-translation and the validity of the instrument was tested for content and construct validity; its reliability was tested by internal consistency analysis.

Results

The mean age of the respondents was 64.44 ± 9.57. The content validity index for the ageism survey was found to be 0.89 and Cronbach α value was 0.86. Item-total correlation values for all of the items were over 0.31. Of the participants, 82.5% reported being confronted with some kind of discriminatory behavior at least once.

Conclusion

It was established that the ageism survey is appropriate to the Turkish language and culture and that it is a valid and reliable instrument.