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The orientation to life questionnaire : Validation of a measure to assess older adults’sense of coherence
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Increasingly, the literature suggests that the sense of coherence (SOC) positively influences
well-being in later life. This study reports the assessment of the following psychometric properties:
distributional properties, construct, criterion and external-related validities, and reliability of
the Orientation to Life Questionnaire (OtLQ) in an cross-national population of older adults. We
recruited 1291 community-dwelling older adults aged between 75–102 years (M ¼ 83.9; SD ¼
6.68). Convenience sampling was used to gather questionnaire data. The construct validity was
asserted by confirmatory factor analysis and convergent and discriminant validity. Moreover,
criterion and external-related validities, as well as distributional properties and reliability, were also
tested. Data gathered with the 29-items OtLQ scale showed overall good psychometric properties in
terms of distributional properties, construct, criterion, and external-related validities, as well as
reliability. Three factors were validated for the OtLQ scale: (a) comprehensibility; (b) manageability;
and (c) meaningfulness. We validated the three-factor OtLQ scale, which produced valid and reliable
data for a cross-national sample with older adults. Hence, it is an adequate instrument for assessing
sense of coherence among older people in health care practice and program development contexts.
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Educational Gerontology, 41 (6), 451-465
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Taylor & Francis