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September 10, 2025Educational Gerontology

Development of the 20-item Multidimensional Attitude Toward Older Adults Scale(MATOAS-20): A psychometrically robust tool for health and social sciences

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MIMichiko IwasakiMSMartin F. ShermanMWMichael J. White

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Overview

New scale assesses ageism in students, revealing promising reliability and validity across different populations.

Key Points

  • MATOAS-20 effectively measures attitudes toward older adults, emphasizing the need to address ageism in education.
  • Internal consistency for the total scale is strong at α = .87, ensuring reliable measurements in various settings.
  • Assessment involved 700 students and 277 adults, supporting convergent and divergent validity through established measures.
  • Results indicate that MATOAS-20 may enhance trainees' understanding and professional competency in gerontology.

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Iwasaki et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c1c32154b1d3bfb60f0e90https://doi.org/10.1080/03601277.2025.2545011
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