Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Objective: This study aims to develop the “Disaster Recovery Conviction Scale regarding Elderly Individuals” and to contribute to the literature by considering the vulnerabilities of elderly individuals as a result of their fragile nature. Methods: The scale development consisted of forming a question pool, obtaining expert opinions, creating a trial form, and the stages of validity and reliability. While examining the validity of the scale, construct validity, convergent validity and internal validity were examined. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were performed to determine construct validity. To determine the internal validity, a 27% subgroup-group comparison was made. Results: The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) value for the 12 items evaluated in developing the scale was found to be 0.763, and the Bartlett test result was found to be 261.827 (p
Author: Emrah Gökkaya
Institution: Kayseri Üniversitesi
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410787622