Translation and Psychometric Evaluation of the University of Jyvaskyla Active Aging Scale (UJACAS) for Use in Sweden
Abstract
The objectives were to translate the University of Jyvaskyla Active Aging Scale (UJACAS) to Swedish, to establish semantic equivalence and evaluate psychometric properties for use among persons 55 years and older in Sweden. The UJACAS contains 17 items to be self-assessed regarding goals, abilities, opportunity, and activity. Psychometric properties content validity, data quality including floor and ceiling effects, test-retest reliability, internal consistency, and construct validity were evaluated with different samples in three phases, using state-of-the-art statistics. After translating and establishing semantic equivalence, content validity was assessed as high. With ICC = 0.88 (95% CI 0.80–0.93) test-retest reliability was moderate. Internal consistency was high (Cronbach alpha = 0.84–0.91), and 84% of the questions reached the cut-off value of 0.3 for corrected item-total correlation. Construct validity hypotheses were confirmed. Results indicate that the UJACAS is reliable and valid for use among persons 55 and older in Sweden.
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Published
2024
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Springer
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202402011706Use this for linking
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Peer reviewed
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0169-3816
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10823-024-09496-8
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English
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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology
Citation
- Nordeström, F., Slaug, B., Zingmark, M., Granbom, M., Rantanen, T., & Iwarsson, S. (2024). Translation and Psychometric Evaluation of the University of Jyvaskyla Active Aging Scale (UJACAS) for Use in Sweden. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 39(1), 17-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10823-024-09496-8
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European Commission
Research Council of Finland
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ERC European Research Council, H2020
Academy Project, AoF
ERC European Research Council, H2020
Akatemiahanke, SA
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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The RELOC-AGE project is financed by grant 2019 − 00996 from the Swedish Research Council; grant 2019 − 01104 from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare; and the Ribbingska Foundation in Lund, Sweden. The project is situated in the Centre for Ageing and Supportive Environments (CASE), financially supported by the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Engineering at Lund University, Sweden. TR was financially supported by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (693045) and by the Academy of Finland (310526).
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