RT Journal Article
T1 Using the working with older adults scale with Spanish undergraduate students
A1 Feijóo Quintas, Susana
A1 Picón Prado, Eduardo
A1 Lojo Seoane, Cristina
A1 Graham, Kristen L.
A1 Facal Mayo, David
K1 Ageism
K1 Education and training
K1 Measurement
K1 Theory of planned behaviour
K1 Perceived social approval
K1 Workforce
AB The growing population of older adults worldwide has raised concerns about the recruitment and retention of the workforce in age-related care. Based on this concern, the present work studies the intention to work with older adults in a Spanish sample of undergraduate students. An online questionnaire was administered to undergraduate students from different disciplines. A language adapted version of the Working with Older Adults Scale (WOAS) and the Big-Five Inventory 10-Item version were applied. Basic psychometrics were computed, together with EFA, CFA and multivariate statistics in order to know more about the relevance and relationships between the four WOAS subscales and their association with BFI personality domains. Moderate to strong relationships were found between WOAS subscales, in addition to significant correlations between the perceived behavioral control subscale and some personality traits. Nevertheless, only subjective norm and attitudes subscales contributed significantly to the intention to work with older adults. The current results replicate in Spanish students the previous findings about the role of perceived social approval on the intention to work with older adults. More research is needed on the role of intrapersonal factors
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 0270-1960
YR 2025
FD 2025-08-17
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/45956
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/45956
LA eng
NO Feijóo-Quintas, S., Picón, E., Lojo-Seoane, C., Graham, K. L., & Facal, D. (2025). Using the working with older adults scale with Spanish undergraduate students. Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/02701960.2025.2547001
NO This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Gerontology and Geriatrics Education on 2025-17-08, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02701960.2025.2547001
NO This study was partially supported by the Galician Government (Consellería  de Cultura, Educacion e Ordenacion Universitaria, Axudas para a consolidacion e estruturacion de unidades de investigación competitivas do Sistema Universitario de  Galicia ED431C 2021/04; GI-1807- USC: Ref. 2021-PG011) and the European Union  through the Interreg España-Portugal/POCTEP program (INNOV4LIFE project, ref.  0088_INNOV4LIFE_1_P).
DS Minerva
RD 22 abr 2026