title: The Aging Semantic Differential in Mandarin Chinese: Measuring Attitudes toward Older Adults in China.
abstract: The Aging Semantic Differential (ASD) is the most widely used instrument to measure young people's attitudes towards older adults. This study translated the ASD to Mandarin and examined its psychometric properties. The Mandarin-ASD contains three latent factors (Personality and Mental Health, Societal Participation, and Physical) that have high internal reliability and reasonable discriminate validity. Social work researchers, practitioners and allied professionals may utilize the ASD-Mandarin instrument to measure young people's attitudes towards older adults in China. We issue a call for a universal-ASD that can be applied across different cultural contexts.
authors.affiliation: a Boston University School of Social Work , Boston , Massachusetts , USA.
authors.forename: Ernest
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gonzales
authors.affiliation: b Department of Organizational Studies, Anderson School of Management , University of New Mexico , Albuquerque , New Mexico , USA.
authors.forename: Lisa A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Marchiondo
authors.affiliation: c School of Social Work , Bridgewater State University , Bridgewater , Massachusetts , USA.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: d George Warren Brown School of Social Work , Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis , Missouri , USA.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: d George Warren Brown School of Social Work , Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis , Missouri , USA.
authors.forename: Huajuan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D063506:Ageism / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D044466:Asian People / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012659:Semantic Differential; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating
keywords: Agism; Mandarin Chinese; aging semantic differential; confirmatory factor analysis