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Assessing social integration in the elderly: development of a brief self-report assessment scale: the social integration and independence questionnaire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

P Kowal  and
JD Guelfi
P Kowal
Affiliation:
Hôpital Charles Foix, Avenue de la République, 94000 Ivry-sur-Seine
JD Guelfi
Affiliation:
CMME, 100, rue de la Santé, 75674 Paris Cedex 14, France
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The paper describes the construction and validation of a brief self-rating scale for social integration in the elderly: the 17-item Social Integration and Independence Questionnaire (SIIQ). The questionnaire was tested on a sample of 160 individuals over the age of 65. Principle component analysis elicited four factors accounting for 48.8% of the cumulative variance: ‘Independence’, ‘Social Integration’, ‘Familial’ and ‘Depression’ (20.7, 10.6, 9.0 and 8.4% of the cumulative variance). The four factors measure the adjustment of elderly people in the community.

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social integrationdepressionelderlyquality of life

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European Psychiatry , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , 1992 , pp. 115 - 120
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1992

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