International relevance of two measures of awareness of age-related change (AARC)

BMC Geriatrics

Table 9 Correlations between AARC-10 SF and measures of self-perceptions of aging, mental and physical health

Correlational evidence of validity of the AARC-10 SF
	AARC-10 SF Gains			AARC-10 SF Losses
	Pearson’s r	[95% CI]	p-value	Pearson’s r	[95% CI]	p-value
Felt age	.10	[.08, .12]	< .001	−.27	[−.29, −.25]	< .001
CIDI-Lifetime depressive symptoms	.07	[.05, .09]	< .001	.13	[.12, .16]	< .001
CIDI-Lifetime anxiety symptoms	.04	[.02, .06]	< .001	.16	[.14, .18]	< .001
GAD-7	−.03	[−.05, −.01]	.01	.21	[.19, .23]	.01
PHQ-9	−.08	[−.10, −.06]	< .001	.32	[.30, .34]	< .001
IADL	−.03	[−.05, −.01]	< .001	.23	[.21, .24]	< .001
Perceived health	.09	[.08, .12]	< .001	−.44	[−.46, −.43]	< .001
Digit span	−.01	[−.04, .01]	.09	−.12	[−.14, −.09]	< .0001
Paired associate learning	−.01	[−.04, .01]	.32	−.11	[−.14, −.09]	< .0001
Verbal reasoning	−.04	[−.07, −.02]	.001	−.15	[−.18, −.13]	< .0001
Self-ordered search	−.05	[−.08, −.03]	< .0001	−.10	[−.12, −.08]	< .0001
	Spearman’s ρ		p-value	Spearman’s ρ		p-value
ATOA	.13		< .0001	−.25		< .0001

AARC-10 SF gains Subscale of the AARC-10 SF assessing AARC gains, AARC-10 SF losses Subscale of the AARC-10 SF assessing AARC losses, Felt age Felt age discrepancy score between participants’ chronological age and the age they feel they are, ATOA Lawton’s attitudes toward own aging 5-item scale, CIDI-Lifetime depressive symptoms Composite international diagnostic interview-depressive symptoms, CIDI-Lifetime anxiety symptoms Composite international diagnostic interview-anxiety symptoms. GAD-7 Generalized anxiety disorder-7, PHQ-9 Patient Health Questionnaire-9, IADL Lawton’s Instrumental activities of daily living scale. Perceived health = Participants rated their own health on a four-point scale ranging from excellent to poor “excellent”, “good”, “fair”, and “poor”

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