Validation of the Aging Perceptions Questionnaire Short on a sample of community-dwelling Turkish elderly migrants

Table 3 Turkish and Dutch^a APQ-S inter-factor correlations, means and standard deviations, and Turkish APQ-S reliabilities

APQ Dimensions	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	M (SD)	α
1. Timeline chronic
Turkish APQ-S	-						3.73 (.93)^***	.75
Dutch APQ-S	-						3.35 (.92)^***
2. Timeline cyclical
Turkish APQ-S	.31^***	-					3.55 (.77)^***	.56
Dutch APQ-S	.44^***	-					2.84 (.88)^***
3. Consequence positive
Turkish APQ-S	.09	.09	-				3.50 (.98)	.80
Dutch APQ-S	.21^***	.09^**	-				3.40 (.76)
4. Consequence negative
Turkish APQ-S	.47^***	.41^***	.00	-			3.90 (.90)^***	.82
Dutch APQ-S	.50^***	.54^***	.12^***	-			3.38 (.83)^***
5. Emotional representations
Turkish APQ-S	.21^***	.54^***	−.08	.38^***	-		2.95 (1.07)^***	.79
Dutch APQ-S	.33^***	.66^***	.07^*	.46^***	-		2.46 (.85)^***
6. Control positive
Turkish APQ-S	−.01	.04	.52^***	−.02	−.08	-	3.49 (1.03)^***	.88
Dutch APQ-S	.04	−.06^*	.27^***	.01	−.06	-	3.71 (.70)^***
7. Control negative
Turkish APQ-S	−.42^***	−.36^***	−.05	−.39^***	−.32^***	.01	2.19 (.88)^***	.81
Dutch APQ-S	−.37^***	−.32^***	−.17^***	−.47^***	−.33^***	−.12^***	2.43 (.77)^***

Note. ^* p ≤ .05; ^** p ≤ .01; ^*** p ≤ .001 (two-tailed). Higher means are indicative of higher levels on the respective aging dimensions, e.g., stronger cyclical awareness and more perceived control over positive and negative aspects of aging. APQ-S mean differences between the Turkish and general Dutch population samples were calculated using independent samples t-tests. ^a Dutch APQ-S refers to the results found in the APQ-S development and validation study, among a general sample of elderly, residing in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Slotman et al., 2015)

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