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The orientation to life questionnaire : Validation of a measure to assess older adults’sense of coherence
| dc.contributor.author | von Humboldt, Sofia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Leal, Isabel Pereira | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-04-10T18:02:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-04-10T18:02:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | por |
| dc.identifier.citation | Educational Gerontology, 41 (6), 451-465 | por |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/03601277.2014.983373 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0360-1277 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/3532 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | por |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | por |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | por |
| dc.title | The orientation to life questionnaire : Validation of a measure to assess older adults’sense of coherence | por |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Philadelphia | por |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 465 | por |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 451 | por |
| oaire.citation.title | Educational Gerontology | por |
| oaire.citation.volume | 41 | por |
| rcaap.rights | restrictedAccess | por |
| rcaap.type | article | por |