Orta Yaş Kadınlar İçin Yaşlanma Anksiyetesi Ölçeği Türkçe Formunun Geçerlilik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması
Project no. 21735 · Status: Kapanmış · 2020
Summary
Aim: This study aimed to perform a validity and reliability study of the Turkish Version of the Aging Anxiety Scale for Middle-Aged Women. Method: This methodological study was conducted with 262 women aged 40–59 years. While language, content and construct validity analyses were performed at the validity phase of the scale, internal consistency and stability over time analyses were performed at the reliability stage. Results: After the language validity of the scale was established, no item was removed because the content validity index was >0.78 for all the items. Explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed for the construct validity, and it was determined that the items of the scale were classified under four factors; this was consistent with the original form of the scale. These 4 factors explained 77.27% of the variance. The Cronbach’s ? reliability was 0.962 for the overall scale and ranged between 0.836 and 0.949 for the 4 sub-dimensions. In the test-retest analysis, the correlation between the 2 results for the overall scale was 0.999, indicating the presence of a perfect fit between the two measurements. Conclusion: The Turkish adaptation of the scale was determined to have adequate psychometric properties with its four-factor structure. Anxiousness, biological ageing, middle age, woman