title: Validation of the Chinese expanded Euthanasia Attitude Scale.
abstract: This article reports the validation of the Chinese version of an expanded 31-item Euthanasia Attitude Scale. A 4-stage validation process included a pilot survey of 119 college students and a randomized household survey with 618 adults in Hong Kong. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed a 4-factor structure of the scale, which can therefore be used to examine attitudes toward general, active, passive, and non-voluntary euthanasia. The scale considers the role effect in decision-making about euthanasia requests and facilitates cross-cultural comparison of attitudes toward euthanasia. The new Chinese scale is more robust than its Western predecessors conceptually and measurement-wise.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. alice.chong@cityu.edu.hk
authors.forename: Alice Ming-Lin
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Chong
authors.affiliation: School of Continuing and Professional Education, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Shiu-Yeu
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Fok
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001290:Attitude / Q000208:ethnology*; D005065:Euthanasia; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014175:Translating