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      Psychometric study of the Awareness of Age-Related Change (AARC) Short Scale translated to Portuguese, applied to Brazilian older adults Translated title: Estudo psicométrico AARC Short Scale traduzido para o português, respondido por idosos brasileiros

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          ABSTRACT.

          The concept Awareness of Age-Related Change (AARC) is defined as a person’s awareness that their behavior, level of physical, cognitive and social performance, and ways of experiencing life have changed as a consequence of having grown older, and not because of disease.

          Objective:

          A psychometric study investigating evidence of construct validity and internal consistency of the Portuguese version of the AARC Short Scale was carried out.

          Method:

          A convenience sample of 387 individuals aged≥60 years with no deficit suggestive of dementia were recruited at venues frequented by older persons and at households. Participants answered the Portuguese version of the scale, along with questionnaires collecting sociodemographic and frailty variables and self-rated health based on personal criteria and relative to peers.

          Results:

          Exploratory and confirmatory factorial analyses derived a structure with two orthogonal factors representing the latent variables gains and losses, invariant for age group, thus replicating the original scale. The factors explained a large proportion of item variability (58.6 to 51.8%) and exhibited high loadings (0.886 to 0.432) and good communality [0.787 for item 4 ( better sense of what is important) and 0.369 for item 6 ( less energy)]. The hypotheses of covariance between the new instrument and the parallel measures of frailty and self-rated health were confirmed. The levels of internal consistency were high (α>0.700).

          Conclusion:

          Evidence confirmed the factor and convergent (construct) validity and internal consistency of the new scale in Portuguese.

          RESUMO.

          O reconhecimento de ganhos e perdas associados ao envelhecimento desempenha papel regulador em relação ao self e às atitudes sociais quanto à velhice.

          Objetivo:

          Investigar indicadores de validade de construto, consistência interna e validade convergente da Awareness of Age-Related Change Short Scale (AARC) traduzida para o português.

          Método:

          Um total de 387 indivíduos de 60 anos ou mais compuseram amostra de conveniência que respondeu à versão do estudo AARC Short Scale em português, e a medidas de fragilidade, autoavaliação de saúde e caracterização sociodemográfica. As explorações de validade de construto foram mediadas por análises fatoriais exploratórias (com rotação Varimax e oblíqua/Promax), e confirmatórias (método de equações estruturais para variáveis latentes); as de consistência interna, pelo teste de Cronbach e as de validade convergente, pelas correlações entre os itens da escala, fragilidade e saúde autorreferida.

          Resultados:

          A estrutura de dois fatores, ganhos e perdas, as cargas e a comunalidade dos itens da escala em português foram altas e similares nas análises fatoriais exploratórias e confirmatórias, e similares à versão original. Foi rejeitada a hipótese de correlação entre os fatores e confirmada a de invariância do construto às idades; consistência interna da escala e dos fatores indicada por índices α>0,700; fragilidade e saúde autorreferida correlacionaram-se negativamente com a pontuação na escala e em ganhos, e positivamente em perdas.

          Conclusões:

          Foram observadas evidências de validade de construto, consistência interna e validade convergente da versão do AARC Short Scale em português, para aplicação em amostras com características similares às desse estudo.

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                Author and article information

                Journal
                Dement Neuropsychol
                Dement Neuropsychol
                dn
                Dementia & Neuropsychologia
                Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
                1980-5764
                1980-5764
                Apr-Jun 2021
                Apr-Jun 2021
                : 15
                : 2
                : 230-238
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Graduate Program of Gerontology, School of Medical Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Campinas, SP, Brazil.
                [2 ]Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University - Heidelberg, Germany.
                [3 ]Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics and Social Sciences of Health, University of Cologne - Cologne, Germany.
                [4 ]Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University - Fort Collins, USA.
                [5 ]School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, Universidade de São Paulo - São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
                Author notes
                Anita Liberalesso Neri. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Gerontologia da Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Unicamp. Rua Tessália Vieira de Camargo, 126 - Barão Geraldo - 13083-887 Campinas SP - Brazil. E-mails: anitalbn@ 123456uol.com.br ; geronto@ 123456fcm.unicamp.br

                Disclosure: The authors report no conflicts of interest.

                Authors’ contributions. All authors agreed on the final version and met at least one of the following criteria: substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content.

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                Article
                10.1590/1980-57642021dn15-020011
                8283873
                34345365
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                : 21 October 2020
                : 23 December 2020
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                Categories
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                reliability and validity,self-perception,attitude,aged,reprodutibilidade dos testes,autopercepção,atitude,idoso

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