Existential Concerns Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties in Spanish Older Adults

García-Alandete, Joaquín authored a dataset for analyzing the psychometric properties of the Existential Concerns Questionnaire (ECQ). The data was collected from Spanish older adults and is hosted on Harvard Dataverse. The record was last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Validate the Existential Concerns Questionnaire based on data from Spanish older adults.
• Assess the factor structure of existential concerns based on questionnaire responses.
• Analyze the reliability and validity of a psychological instrument for an aging population.
• Compare existential concern profiles across different demographic groups within the sample.

Strengths

• The dataset is specifically focused on Spanish older adults, a defined demographic.
• It is designed for psychometric analysis of a named instrument, the Existential Concerns Questionnaire (ECQ).
• The dataset is hosted on the Harvard Dataverse platform, which suggests a degree of institutional backing.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analyses.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 18:47:35; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Spain (implied by 'Spanish older adults')