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ERIC Number: EJ563510
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0360-1277
Examining the Aging Semantic Differential: Suggestions for Refinement.
Polizzi, Kenneth G.; Steitz, Jean A.
Educational Gerontology, v24 n3 p207-23 Apr-May 1998
Review of studies using the Aging Semantic Differential to measure attitudes toward the elderly identified problems: familiarity and variety of objects, men-only design, and age of the instrument. Ways to refine it include updating adjectives and their positions, identifying attitudinal objects, and accounting for gender differences. (SK)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Attitude Measures, Research Problems, Semantic Differential, Test Construction
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Aging Semantic Differential