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Development of a brief measure of generativity and ego-integrity for use in palliative care settings
Dean Vuksanovic1, Murray Dyck1, Heather Green1
1School of Applied Psychology,Griffith University,Gold Coast Campus,Southport,Queensland,Australia.
Objective:
Our aim was to develop and test a brief measure of generativity and ego-integrity that is suitable for use in palliative care settings.
Method:
Two measures of generativity and ego-integrity were modified and combined to create a new 11-item questionnaire, which was then administered to 143 adults. A principal-component analysis with oblique rotation was performed in order to identify underlying components that can best account for variation in the 11 questionnaire items.
Results:
The two-component solution was consistent with the items that, on conceptual grounds, were intended to comprise the two constructs assessed by the questionnaire.
Significance Of Results:
Results suggest that the selected 11 items were good representatives of the larger scales from which they were selected, and they are expected to provide a useful means of measuring these concepts near the end of life.
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