A 10-item Rasch modeled memory self-efficacy scale.
A 10-item scale to measure memory self-efficacy was developed from responses to the 33-item Frequency of Forgetting scale of the Memory Functioning Questionnaire (MFQ). Responses to the MFQ from 565 participants in the 1994-1995 wave of the Long Beach Longitudinal Study were analyzed. Rasch scaling procedures were used to select items that discriminated individuals' scoring patterns and that provided non-redundant information about responses. A set of 10 items provided a scale that was reliable across items and persons. Female gender, conscientiousness score, depression score, and list recall predicted individual differences in participants' scores on the scale. Age, education, neuroticism, and text recall were also reliably correlated with scores but were suppressed by the other covariates. The shortened test is predicted by the same covariates as the long version, indicating that it has similar construct validity.
Zelinski
E M
EM
Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Univeristy of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089-0191, USA. zelinski@usc.edu
Gilewski
M J
MJ
D000368:Aged; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D010551:Personality; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires