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B Barak

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PubMed2001

A cross-cultural procedure to assess reliability and measurement invariance.

Steenkamp and Baumgartner (1998) developed a procedure to assess measurement invariance across cultures. The study presented here applied their procedure to a scale to measure cognitive age (Barak, 1979; 1987; 1998; Barak and Schiffman, 1981) and relied on data collected in three Non-Western societies: India (N=195), China (N=250), and Korea (N=251). The results from a series of confirmatory factor analyses indicate that the technique provides a valuable tool to assess measurement invariance across cultures. The results further showed the cognitive age scale to be applicable in the three diverse cultures surveyed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1999

Perceived youth: appraisal and characterization.

Results from a mail survey of respondents aged sixty to ninety-four suggest that psychographic dimensions of youthfulness and identification with old age constitute effective inner-age research variables, especially to those seeking to study older populations. The two specific dimensions explored are: "perceived youth," a magnitude measure of the proportional discrepancy between chronological and cognitive ages; and "feeling-old," which inversely measured youth through reliance on a six-point Likert agree/disagree statement: "I feel old...." In addition to the obvious inverse relationship between these inner-ages, research established trait covariation relative to an increase in perceived youth coincidental with a rejection of a feeling-old identity, corresponding to increases in "happiness, own-health rating, being venturesome, giving advice, self-esteem, social activity, and keeping-in-shape," as well as decreases in "taking advice, being a homebody, and having health worries."

Aged↗
PubMed1998

Inner-ages of middle-aged prime-lifers.

A comprehensive survey examined three age-role self-concepts: cognitive, ideal, and social ages. Participants were forty to sixty-nine years old and viewed themselves as middle-aged. The investigation reviewed inner-age research and evaluated inner-age infra-structure (with t-tests and correlations), as well as connections between inner-age and participants' characteristics (with covariates, partial correlations, and regressions) in the context of eight psychographic trait-sets (sex-identity, quality-of-life, health, self-consciousness, societal traits, venturesomeness, supermarket shopping involvement, and exercise activities). The three inner ages, while closely interrelated diverged in their distribution patterns, in mean ages, as well as (after removal of birth age's linear effects) in their covariates and correlates.

Adult↗
PubMed1990

Cognitive age: demographic and psychographic dimensions.

This empirical study, based on a random self-report mail survey, explored perceptions of age among mature Americans aged 60+. Respondents were members of a systematic probability sample located in the Mid Atlantic region. Two inner-age dimensions were considered: the first, Cognitive Age, is a measure of self-perceived age and assesses a person's "actual" age-role self-concept; the second, entitled Youthfulness, is a new measure of youth scored by what percentage a respondent's Age-of-Birth is greater than his or her Cognitive Age (Chronological Age/Cognitive Age). The study first explored the relationships between the age variables, and then, through Multivariate Analyses of Variance (MANOVAs), the associations between four trait-sets (demographics, health, Quality of Life, and psychographic traits) and the two inner-age dimensions.

Age Factors↗
PubMed1987

Cognitive age: a new multidimensional approach to measuring age identity.

An exploratory field study was undertaken to explore the way in which age-concepts are experienced, and to assess the relationship of age identities to each other. In addition, this study seeks to establish a new multidimensional age scale, Cognitive Age, to replace the well-established standard scale, Identity Age. This research also functions as a follow-up to an exploration by Kastenbaum et al. of "ages-of-me." Ths most frequently used subjective age measures, Identity Age and Feel/Age, are unidimensional, and thus very difficult to evaluate in terms of reliability and/or validity. A multidimensional view of age as reflected by Personal Age is very appealing, but complex to assess. Cognitive Age successfully merges Identity Age, in which respondents identify with age-referrent groupings, and Personal Age, in which respondents rate themselves in terms of four functional age dimensions. The resultant Cognitive Age scale is both reliable and valid.

Adult↗