Demographic Data Demographic Data Sheet The DDS was

The performed procedures involved giving the first draft of the instrument to a panel of experts and incorporating their comments into a second draft which was then given to a representative sample of older men. These older men were drawn from a local senior citizens club and varied in age from 63 to 78 years with a mean age of 67.54. Thus, the pilot subjects were drawn from the same subject pool as the subjects used in the final study and were roughly the same ages.

Reliability data (Hoyt Reliability Correlation Coefficients) were computed for all eight ego stages assessed by the Self-Description Questionnaire. These coefficients ranged from .61 to .80 with a median coefficient of 68.5. The coefficient observed for the final ego stage (the ego stage of interest in the conducted research) was .69, a value indicating at least a moderately good level of reliability.

Internal consistency coefficients were also computed for each of the eight ego stages. These coefficients ranged from .82 to .87 with a median value of .85. The value observed for the ego stage associated with old age was .84.

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n, or yearly income since variability was desired here so that the various categories of these factors could be assessed for associations with life satisfaction, death anxiety and psychosocial crisis resolution. However, demographic variables that were not assessed in the study (e.g. occupational status, birth-order, etc.) were not matched; this means that the extent to which differences in unmatched demographic factors contributed to response variance cannot be known on the basis of this study. As to whether the sample population was actually representative of the general population, it must be remembered that sample subjects were volunteers. As noted by Adair (1973), volunteers tend to have a number of characteristics that distinguish them from non-volunteers. In this regard, volunteers tend to have high educational levels and occupational status; they have a greater need for social approval, higher intelligence, and are lower in authoritarianism. It is, therefore, possible that the findings of this study only generalize to the volunteering subset of the population from which subjects were drawn. This fact brings up another point which is that all subjects were drawn from associations or clubs (Moose Lodge, AARP, a loc
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