TY - JOUR
T1 - Transcultural Validation of the Nordic Age Discrimination Scale for the Spanish-Speaking Working Populations
AU - Alcover, Carlos María
AU - Nazar, Gabriela
AU - Bargsted, Mariana
AU - Ramírez-Vielma, Raúl
AU - Pulido, Ninfa
AU - Rodríguez, Lucía
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding Statement: This work was supported by the Concurso Atracción de Capital Humano Avanzado del Extranjero, Modalidad Estadías Cortas (MEC), Convocatoria 2019 (Grant Number MEC80190085).
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PY - 2022/3/28
Y1 - 2022/3/28
N2 - Negative stereotypes about older workers can result in different types of age discrimination. The aim of this study was to run a transcultural adaptation and validation of the Nordic Age Discrimination Scale (NADS) into Spanish. Three independent samples of Chilean (N = 301), Colombian (N = 150), and Spanish (N = 209) workers over the age of 45, from different sectors and professional categories, answered a questionnaire including the NADS scale, measures of perceptions of inequality, workplace harassment and several scales related to outcome variables to test criterion and construct validity. The reliability index for the NADS was.85, a similar value for both Cronbach's alpha (α) and McDonald's omega (ω). CFA by country suggest good fit of this single-dimension structure in a final version of 5 items, and it presents scalar invariance; using the modification indices, partial invariance is achieved at the level of the variance of the errors. Both criterion and construct validity were verified, with strong evidence for criterion validity, and moderate results for construct validity. Therefore, the Spanish version of NADS had a single-dimension structure and adequate psychometric properties being a useful tool in measuring perceptions of age discrimination in different countries.
AB - Negative stereotypes about older workers can result in different types of age discrimination. The aim of this study was to run a transcultural adaptation and validation of the Nordic Age Discrimination Scale (NADS) into Spanish. Three independent samples of Chilean (N = 301), Colombian (N = 150), and Spanish (N = 209) workers over the age of 45, from different sectors and professional categories, answered a questionnaire including the NADS scale, measures of perceptions of inequality, workplace harassment and several scales related to outcome variables to test criterion and construct validity. The reliability index for the NADS was.85, a similar value for both Cronbach's alpha (α) and McDonald's omega (ω). CFA by country suggest good fit of this single-dimension structure in a final version of 5 items, and it presents scalar invariance; using the modification indices, partial invariance is achieved at the level of the variance of the errors. Both criterion and construct validity were verified, with strong evidence for criterion validity, and moderate results for construct validity. Therefore, the Spanish version of NADS had a single-dimension structure and adequate psychometric properties being a useful tool in measuring perceptions of age discrimination in different countries.
KW - Nordic Age Discrimination Scale (NADS)
KW - age discrimination at work
KW - older workers
KW - validation
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U2 - 10.1017/SJP.2022.10
DO - 10.1017/SJP.2022.10
M3 - Article
C2 - 35343420
AN - SCOPUS:85127277283
SN - 1138-7416
VL - 25
JO - Spanish Journal of Psychology
JF - Spanish Journal of Psychology
IS - 4
M1 - e15
ER -