Coping With Late-Life Challenges: Development and Validation of the Care-Receiver Efficacy Scale
Author(s) -
E. O. Cox,
K. E. Green,
HyunJu Seo,
Masaaki Inaba,
Alicia Alyla Quillen
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the gerontologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1758-5341
pISSN - 0016-9013
DOI - 10.1093/geront/46.5.640
Subject(s) - psychology , convergent validity , scale (ratio) , content validity , face validity , reliability (semiconductor) , psychological intervention , coping (psychology) , clinical psychology , internal consistency , applied psychology , psychometrics , psychiatry , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
Measures are lacking that address the challenges that people think they face in their roles as elderly care receivers. However, the development of a sense of efficacy in this role by mentally competent care receivers is critical to successful partnerships between caregivers and care receivers. The purpose of this article is to report the development and psychometric analysis of the Care-Receiver Efficacy Scale (CRES).
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