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Validity of the Sheltered Care Environment Scale: rejoinder to Lemke and Moos (1990)
Gregory C Smith1, Susan K Whitbourne
1State U New York, Ringel Inst of Gerontology, Albany.
Psychology and Aging
|December 1, 1990
Abstract:
In a previous article, based on open-ended interviews with residents of 1 facility, questions were raised about the construct validity of 3 of the 7 subscales of the Sheltered Care Environment Scale. Lemke and Moos (1990) criticized the sampling of a single facility as having an inappropriate focus on individual differences. Their criticisms are addressed, and a dialectic approach is recommended for use in qualitative analyses for construction and validation of quantitative measures of geriatric residential settings.