A brief version of the Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire for older Chinese adults: development and psychometric evaluation

Table 4 Correlations between the subscale scores of AAQ-BC and criterion variables

Scale	N	M	SD	Pearson r
Scale				PL	PC	PG
Sample 2
CES-D (9 items)^a	302	4.04	3.41	0.53^***	− 0.38^***	− 0.27^***
Sample 3
CES-D (10 items)^b	153	4.84	4.47	0.46^***	− 0.46^***	− 0.39^***
GAD (7 items)^c	159	2.91	3.44	0.38^***	− 0.30^***	− 0.23^**
WHOQoL-Bref (1 item)^d	164	4.18	0.81	− 0.15	0.42^***	0.34^***

Note. PL = Psychosocial loss, PC = Physical change, PG = Psychological growth, CES-D = Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, GAD = Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale, WHOQoL-Bref = the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Bref assessment
^a Uses a nine-item version of CES-D [49]
^b Uses a 10-item version of CES-D [50, 51]
^c Uses a seven-item version of GAD [52]
^d Uses a global item of WHOQoL-Bref: “How would you rate your quality of life?” [53]
^*p <.05, ^**p <.01, ^***p <.001

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