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The shortened scale showed a good homogeneity (Cronbach's α = 0.76) [20.76

The shortened scale showed a good homogeneity (Cronbach's α = 0.84) and correlated highly with the comprehensive scale (r > 0.80) [52].

The first population comprised 335 elderly persons who completed the original version of the scale, and the second was composed by 265 elderly persons who completed the shortened scale.

The internal consistency of this shortened scale was α=80.

The final shortened scale of social maladjustment included 10 items.

This shortened scale has a high internal consistency with an alpha of 0.72 [ 27].

Using these shortened scales the construct validity revealed that the items were sensibly related to the domains that contained them (convergent validity correlations between 0.6 0.86) and had no association with items from different domains (discriminate validity).

Thus inclusion of more items can reduce the likelihood of observing low scale reliability values which could characterize and compromise (in terms of usefulness) an otherwise over-shortened scale.

Statistical methodologies used to shorten scales include simple correlations and adjusted correlations between long and short forms, Cronbach's α per dimension, item total correlation and item remainder correlation for item and composite scores, and factor analysis (see Coste et al [ 26] for review of methods used to shorten scales).

The shortened NFCC scale showed high internal consistency (Cronbach's α = .795).795

The third questionnaire to be assessed was the Shortened Fatigue Scale (SFQ, in Dutch: VerkorteVermoeidheidsVragenlijst, VVV) [ 54].