By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Attitudes towards older people were measured using the kogans attitudes towards older people scale kop, developed by kogan in 1961. Though more recent work on attitudes toward older adults has helped to uncover the multidimensional nature of human attitudes, kogan s scale is still used because it is convenient to admin. Psychometric properties of the iranian version of the.
Research on fiveyear higher vocational college nursing students aging knowledge, attitude towards the elderly and employment intention of engaging in the. Rather than assessing student attitudes toward older people, this research is structured to. This is a 34item scale, composed of a positive subscale including. Do clinical experiences affect nursing students attitudes. Reliability and validity of the greek version of kogans old. Survey of attitude towards and understanding of the. A mean score of 9 was achieved on the pretest of kogan s attitude scale, and a mean score of 154 was obtained on the posttest. The validity and reliability of kogan s attitude towards old. Feature article reliability and validity assessment of the job attitude scale kelly flannery, phd, rn barbara resnick, phd, faanp, faan, crnp elizabet.
Selvaraj n 2016 attitude of the t ourists towards the availability of facilities in and around madurai region a study. Taiwan is facing the dilemma of a rapidly growing elderly population and there is a perceived need for greater gerontological education. The second scale that met two of the three minimum criteria for psychometric validation was the kogans attitudes towards old people scale, which was evaluated by 17 different studies with two of the studies being based on the same data hicks et al. It was developed to assess the attitude towards older adults in society and the people who provides medical services like nurses, health workers, and doctors etc. Students attitudes towards older people assessment. Mean standard deviation of participants age was 34. Kogans attitude towards old people scale kaop and general selfefficacy scale gse to measure knowledge about old people, attitude towards the elderly and self efficacy of caregivers, respectively. Results indicated that indigenous people have positive attitudes toward elders. Kogans attitude toward older people scale instrument validation gerontological education abstract the considerable growth in the elderly population in turkey has brought with it problems as well as concerns regarding gerontological education for health care professionals.
The kogan attitudes toward old people scale 1961 was revised and used to measure local television news producer attitudes toward elderly people. As well as being used for heath workers, it is also. Kogans attitudes toward old people scale microform. The kogans attitudes toward older people scale kaops\ud questionnaire was used as data gathering tools. Dec 06, 2018 the kaop scale was developed by nathan kogan from the united states.
Interscale correlations were reported in the range of. Psychometric properties of the iranian version of the kogans. Kogaus attitude towards old people scale was used to measure student attitudes in this study kogan, 1961. The language used in the kogan scale reflects how society viewed elderly people almost 40 years ago. The arabic version of the kogan attitudes toward older people. A chinese version of kogans attitude toward older people scale. Data was analysed using the ttest, cronbachs alpha coefficient, correlation, and factor analyses. A test of local television news producers attitudes toward older adults.
The intergenerational exchanges attitude scale 319 pies ranged from. The purpose of this study is to test a revised and shortened kogan attitudes toward old people scale. Couch and keniston s agreement response ar scale was used as the measure of acquiescence tendency. Findings were complemented by quantitative data from kogans attitude toward old people kaop scale. Though more recent work on attitudes toward older adults has helped to uncover the multidimensional nature of human attitudes, kogans scale is still used because it is convenient to admin. In this study, kogan s attitude toward old people s scale was used to ascertain subjects attitudes. It was established to measure the attitudes of individuals towards older people. A correlational study was done on the effect of acquiescence response set upon kogan s attitudes toward old people op scale. Data analysis was done in spss 16 software using\ud pearson correlation coefficient, paired ttest, ttests and one way anova test. Data about the characteristics of the caregivers and their work environments were also collected using a selfdeveloped questionnaire. Attitudes of healthcare workers towards older people in a. There were no significant gender or living arrangement differences for those. Reliability and validity assessment reliability and validity of the behavioural assessment scale reliability and validity of the reduced spanish version of the iowa infant feeding attitude scale. In order not to diminish the positive attitudes by the negative ones, the specific.
The present research adapts kogans scale and methodology to the setting of higher education. Pdf a chinese version of kogans attitude toward older. In this study, kogans attitude toward old peoples scale was used to ascertain subjects attitudes. Kogans attitude toward older people scale consists of one set of 17 statements expressing positive statements and one set of 17 negative statements.
Participants were aged 1845 years and the study had two phases. Nursing students belonging to extended type of family and living in rural community, as well as older students and students who reported higher degree of closeness with their grandparents, exhibited. Clinical placement and correlates affecting student. May 23, 2018 for example, the kogans attitude toward old people scale ivester and king 1977 is a likerttype instrument 34 items for assessing adolescents attitudes toward old people with respect to both norms and individual differences e. The present research adapts kogan s scale and methodology to the setting of higher education. Clinical placement and correlates affecting student attitudes. A correlational study was done on the effect of acquiescence response set upon kogans attitudes toward old people op scale.
Indigenous peoples attitude toward their elders and. Further research into medical student attitudes towards older people is important, and requires accurate and detailed evaluative methodology. Outcome measures data were collected using a selfadministered questionnaire composed of the palmores facts on aging quiz i, kogans attitude towards old people scale, general selfefficacy scale and background characteristics of participants. Faqfacts on aging quiz aim to explore the attitudes of student nurses towards older people before and after education and clinical placement. The results identified student nurses as having more positive. The chinese version of the facts on aging quiz scale. The validity and reliability of kogans attitude towards old. A form containing demographic characteristics of nurses and nursing students, and the turkish version of kogans attitude towards old people scale were used to gather the required data.
The kogan attitudes toward old people scale scale has been used in gerontological research for more than 35 years. Kogan 1961 used a spearman brown split half reliability to establish reliability for his scale. Participants completed kogans attitude towards old people scale, 17 which has been used successfully in previous nursing research. Read a turkish version of kogans attitude toward older people kaop scale. The validity and reliability of kogan s attitude towards. Half of items are negatively worded, half are positively worded. Kogans attitudes toward older people scale kaops is a scale constructed in 1961 measuring the affective attitude of nurses towards elders kogan 1961a. Method the assessment tools used were kogans attitudes towards older people kaop scale and the facts on aging quiz faq.
Tests and assessments related to the field of aging as referenced in aarps ageline database april 2006 ageline describes hundreds of journal articles in which a test or assessment is the focus. Kogans attitude toward older people scale kaop has been widely used in many countries such as america, japan, swiss as well as jordan. The kaop is a reliable instrument to assess the students attitudes toward older people. The arabic version of the kogan attitudes toward older.
Knowledge, attitude and selfefficacy of elderly caregivers. The scale is designed as a summed likert attitude scale on sixpoint response categories that ranges from 1 strongly disagree to 6 strongly agree. A turkish version of kogans attitude toward older people. Wang cc, liao wc, kuo pc, yuan sc, chuang hl, lo hc, yen ch. The kogans attitude toward old people scale and cattells 16 personality factor questionnaires were used to investigate attitude and personality differences among an indigenous sample. Differences across groups were evaluated using students t. This questionnaire is much different than kogans scale, which many researchers use, and thus may highlight different aspects of attitudes and opinions. Mar 19, 2012 kogan s attitudes toward older people scale kaops is a scale constructed in 1961 measuring the affective attitude of nurses towards elders kogan 1961a. A chinese version of kogans attitude toward older people. Reliability and validity assessment of the job attitude scale. These categories were scored 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6, respectively, with a score of 4 assigned in the rare case of failure to respond to an item kogan, 1961. Kogans attitudes toward old people scale kogan op scale. The kogan s attitudes toward older people scale kaops\ud questionnaire was used as data gathering tools. The quantitative measure of attitudes was obtained using sixpoint likert scale.
Results showed cronbachs alpha coefficient 073 for the op. Several universities have recently started providing elective gerontological certification programs. May 01, 2011 read a turkish version of kogan s attitude toward older people kaop scale. Survey of attitude towards and understanding of the elderly. Student attitudes toward older adults scholarworks at wmu. Investigation and analysis of attitudes and knowledge of. In order not to diminish the positive attitudes by. Eight n8 second level practical nursing students participated in the study. Both scales were administered to 61 second year medical students and 44 individuals who were undergoing training in gerontology. Reliability and validity of the greek version of kogans. The validity and reliability of kogans attitude towards. The results identified student nurses as having more positive attitudes toward older adults after the intervention.
Reliability and validity assessment, archives of gerontology and geriatrics on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. D responseset bias and predictive validity associated with kogans attitudes toward old people scale, journal of gerontology, volume 2 we use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. Jan 11, 2016 this critical synthesis package contains. A chinese version of kogan s attitude toward older people scale. Instruments administered included kogans attitudes toward older people kop, a selfadministered questionnaire consisting of 34 statements divided into 17 positive statements and 17 negative statements 16. We sought to understand the influence of gender and personality factors on attitudes toward elders. Responseset bias and predictive validity associated with. The kaop scale was developed by nathan kogan from the united states. In the study, cronbachs alpha reliability coefficient for kogans attitude towards old people scale was 0.
An average score for knowledge, attitude and selfefficacy was calculated. Open access original research knowledge, attitude and self. Couch and kenistons agreement response ar scale was used as the measure of acquiescence tendency. A questionnaire was given to the students, which included the kogans old people scale. Evaluation of validity and reliability assessment among nursing students in thailand, myanmar, and indonesia. Researchers must examine the scale and decide whether a revision is now necessary. In developing the scale, kogan assigned older people the status of a minority group, and the items in the scale originated within ethnic minority stereotype research. Tests and assessments related to the field of aging as. Criticisms of the scale, including dated wording and response bias, have increased in the 1990s. Eric ed193306 kogans attitudes toward old people scale. For example, the kogans attitude toward old people scale ivester and king 1977 is a likerttype instrument 34 items for assessing adolescents attitudes toward old people with respect to both norms and individual differences e. This study was conducted methodologically in order to determine the validity and reliability of kogans attitude towards old people scale after being adapted to the turkish society. Rather than assessing student attitudes toward older people, this research is structured to assess faculty attitudes toward older learners.
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