Attitude Instrument Analysis: An Examination of Factor Consistency across Two Samples
- 1 December 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Aging & Human Development
- Vol. 9 (4) , 359-375
- https://doi.org/10.2190/bbq7-521f-5g4e-v176
Abstract
The factor analytic model of the practitioner-oriented Opinions About People (OAP) was tested with a population of gerontological practitioners (N = 558). A confirmatory factor analysis was performed to ascertain the degree-of-fit between these data and the published OAP factor model. After results supported the hypothesis that the two samples differed, a second factor analysis was designed to yield estimates of communalities by a least squares multiple regression technique. This analysis eliminated nine items not warranting inclusion in the instrument, redistributed the factors, and brought out a completely new factor. Finally, to test the hypothesis that attitudes toward aging and the aged are uncorrected, a third analysis was performed in which the six scales of the oblique solution were refactored. The resulting higher order dimensions tended to support this hypothesis.Keywords
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