Citation

Searight HR, Dunn EJ, Grisso JT, Margolis RB, Gibbons JL. Percept. Mot. Skills 1989; 68(3): 863-872.

Affiliation

Psychology Department, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville 67026-1121.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.2466/pms.1989.68.3.863

PMID

2748303

Abstract

A 10-subscale version of the Community Competence Scale, a structured interview, and the Scale of Competency in Independent Living Skills, a rating scale completed by a relative, were administered to 40 geriatric patients with suspected dementia. While the two assessments of competence appear to examine a common global domain, individual correlations between subscales of the two measures were only moderate. The findings provide limited support for the construct of competence.

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