The Aging Semantic Differential in Mandarin Chinese: Measuring Attitudes toward Older Adults in China

The Aging Semantic Differential (ASD) is the most widely used instrument to measure young people's attitudes towards older adults. This study translated the ASD to Mandarin and examined its psychometric properties. The Mandarin-ASD contains three latent factors (Personality and Mental Health, S...

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Published inJournal of gerontological social work Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 245 - 254
Main Authors Gonzales, Ernest, Marchiondo, Lisa A., Tan, Jing, Wang, Yi, Chen, Huajuan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Routledge 03.04.2017
Taylor & Francis LLC
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Ageism - ethnology
Ageism - psychology
Aging
aging semantic differential
Agism
Asian Continental Ancestry Group - ethnology
Asian Continental Ancestry Group - psychology
Attitude to Health - ethnology
Attitudes
China - ethnology
Chinese languages
confirmatory factor analysis
Female
Humans
Male
Mandarin Chinese
Older people
Psychometrics - instrumentation
Psychometrics - methods
Psychometrics - standards
Reproducibility of Results
Semantic Differential
Semantics
Surveys and Questionnaires
Translating
Agism
confirmatory factor analysis
Mandarin Chinese
aging semantic differential
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Summary:The Aging Semantic Differential (ASD) is the most widely used instrument to measure young people's attitudes towards older adults. This study translated the ASD to Mandarin and examined its psychometric properties. The Mandarin-ASD contains three latent factors (Personality and Mental Health, Societal Participation, and Physical) that have high internal reliability and reasonable discriminate validity. Social work researchers, practitioners and allied professionals may utilize the ASD-Mandarin instrument to measure young people's attitudes towards older adults in China. We issue a call for a universal-ASD that can be applied across different cultural contexts.
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ISSN:0163-4372
1540-4048
DOI:10.1080/01634372.2017.1295122