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Table 3 Table summarising the means, standard deviations, ranges and skew for all scales and subscales

From: A cross sectional survey on UK older adult’s attitudes to ageing, dementia and positive psychology attributes

Variable

Mean (SD)

Minimum and Maximum Score

Skew

Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire

 AAQ-Total

87.8 (10.1)

44—117

-0.38

 AAQ-Psychosocial Loss

28.4 (5.0)

8—40

-0.40

 AAQ-Physical Change

30.4 (4.7)

12—40

-0.44

 AAQ-Psychological Growth

29.0 (3.4)

17—40

-0.15

Dementia Attitudes Scale

 DAS-Total

107.8 (15.0)

56—140

-0.05

 DAS-Social Comfort

49.1 (10.3)

14—70

-0.09

 DAS-Dementia Knowledge

58.5 (6.7)

28—70

-0.47

Just World Scale

 JWS-Total

65.7 (14.7)

16—112

-0.27

 JWS-Others

28.3 (8.5)

8—56

-0.60

 JWS-Self

37.4 (8.1)

8—56

-0.10

Sense of Coherence Scale-13

 SOC-Total

66.2 (12.2)

15—91

-0.54

 SOC-Comprehensibility

24.4 (5.4)

5—35

-0.45

 SOC-Manageability

20.2 (4.4)

4—28

-0.54

 SOC-Meaningfulness

21.6 (4.2)

4—28

-0.70

  1. AAQ Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire, DAS Dementia Attitudes Scale, JWS Just World Scale, SOC Sense of Coherence Scale-13. Maximum possible score for AAQ-Total of 120 and for each AAQ subscale of 40. Maximum possible score for DAS-Total of 140 and for each DAS subscale of 70. Maximum possible score for JWS-Total of 112 and for each JWS subscale of 56. Maximum possible score for SOC-Total of 91, for SOC-Comprehensibility of 35 and for SOC-Manageability and SOC-Meaningfulness each a maximum possible score of 28