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

BMC Geriatrics

Table 6 Linear regression results for DAS, JWS and SOC scales as a predictor of AAQ-Total scores

		R²	β value	Constant	95% CI
		R²	β value	Constant	Lower	Upper
AAQ- Total	DAS-Total	0.076	0.185*	67.859	0.161	0.210
	DAS-Social Comfort	0.055	0.229*	76.577	0.193	0.265
	DAS-Dementia Knowledge	0.064	0.382*	65.373	0.327	0.437
	JWS-Total	0.072	0.184*	75.718	0.159	0.209
	JWS-Self	0.104	0.402*	72.798	0.357	0.446
	JWS-Others	0.024	0.186*	82.533	0.142	0.231
	SOC-Total	0.261	0.423*	59.815	0.396	0.450
	SOC-Comprehensibility	0.150	0.722*	70.217	0.657	0.787
	SOC-Manageability	0.169	0.954*	68.554	0.874	1.034
	SOC-Meaningfulness	0.310	1.345*	58.752	1.269	1.421

^* = p < 0.001, AAQ Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire, DAS Dementia Attitudes Scale, JWS Just World Scale, SOC Sense of Coherence Scale-13

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