Development and Validation of Social Motivation Questionnaire.
Gerontologist
; 59(6): e664-e673, 2019 11 16.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:
Information-seeking (IS) and emotion-regulatory (ER) motivation play meaningful roles in age-related changes in social interaction across adulthood. This study aimed to develop and validate the Social Motivation Questionnaire (SMQ) to assess these two types of motivation. RESEARCH DESIGN ANDMETHODS:
Ten items were selected from a pool as the candidate items of SMQ and were administered to 480 German adults (20-91 years old) for validation. These items were also administered to 150 U.S. (18-40 years old) and 131 Hong Kong younger adults (18 to 26 years old) for cultural-invariance examination.RESULTS:
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses showed that a two-factor, eight-item structure fits the German adults' data well with satisfactory reliability. Multigroup comparisons showed cross-age invariance among younger, middle-aged, and older German adults, as well as cross-cultural invariance among German, U.S., and Hong Kong younger adults. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS A new questionnaire, SMQ, was developed and validated to measure IS and ER social motivation across adulthood and across cultures.Palavras-chave
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Participação Social
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Motivação
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
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Asia
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Europa
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Article