Table 2.

Distributions and Internal Reliability for Subscales of the Aging Perceptions Questionnaire (APQ) (n = 2,033)

	Item N	Range	Mean (SD)	Median	% scoring minimum	% scoring maximum	Alpha
Views about aging
Timeline (chronic)	5	4	2.9 (.87)	2.80	1.8	0.8	0.86
Timeline (cyclical)	5	4	2.7(.82)	2.60	2.4	0.2	0.89
Consequences positive	3	4	3.7 (0.59)	4.00	0.2	2.6	0.64
Consequences negative	5	4	3.4 (.74)	3.60	0.2	1.8	0.80
Emotional representations	5	4	2.4 (.74)	2.00	2.8	0.1	0.74
Control positive	5	3.60	3.80 (.54)	4.0	0.2	2.2	0.80
Control negative	4	4.00	2.65 (0.71)	2.50	1.6	0.2	0.73
Experience of health-related changes
Number of changes experienced	17	17	5.44 (3.68)	5.00	6.2	0.1	-
Number of changes attributed to aging	17	17	3.77 (3.30)	3.00	15.8	0.1	-
Identity: Percentage of experienced changes attributed to aging	-	100	65.0 (37.0)	78.0	15.8	37.7	-