The Everyday Ageism Scale: Development and Evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Older adults regularly encounter age-based discrimination and stereotyping in their day-to-day lives. Whether this type of routine ageism negatively affects their health and well-being is unclear, in part due to the absence of validated scales that comprehensively measure this phenomenon and distinguish it from other sources of everyday discrimination.

Methods

This study describes the development of a novel scale, the Everyday Ageism Scale, and its psychometric evaluation using a nationally representative sample of US adults age 50-80 from the December 2019 National Poll on Healthy Aging (N = 2012).

Results

Exploratory factor analysis indicated a 3-factor structure comprised of ageist messages, ageism in interpersonal interactions, and internalized a

SUBMITTER: Allen JO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10249361 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature