title: Psychometric properties of Bradburn's Affect Balance Scale among elderly persons.
abstract: Some psychometric properties of the Affect Balance Scale have been tested on a random sample of 354 elderly people in the Netherlands. Internal reliability estimates were comparable with prior ones, and the 8-wk. test-retest reliability is reasonable for these 5-item measures.
authors.affiliation: University of Groningen.
authors.forename: G I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Kempen
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000339:Affect; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results