The impact of events scale: a comparison of frequency versus severity approaches to measuring cancer-specific distress

The aim was to examine the association between causal attributions for marital violence and emotional reactions of 15 women from two refuges in Northern Ireland. The women who perceived the cause of the violence as stable and uncontrollable scored higher on the Avoidance and Intrusion subscales of the Impact of Events Scale, respectively. In addition, more global causal attributions were associated with higher scores on Intrusion and Avoidance as well as depressive symptomatology as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory. No evidence was, however, found to support the view that these women were engaged in self-blaming (attributions tended to be overwhelmingly external).

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Factor analytic structure of the Impact of Events Scale – Revised when used with a firefighting sample

Disaster Prevention and Management An International Journal ◽

10.1108/09653561111178925 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 20 (5) ◽

pp. 473-484 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Shannon L. Wagner

Keyword(s):

Analytic Structure ◽

Factor Analytic ◽

Impact Of Events Scale ◽

The Impact

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Psychometric Properties of the Impact of Events Scale-Revised (IES-R) Among General Iranian Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Frontiers in Psychiatry ◽

10.3389/fpsyt.2021.692498 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Hamid Sharif Nia ◽

Harpaljit Kaur ◽

Fatemeh Khoshnavay Fomani ◽

Pardis Rahmatpour ◽

Omolhoda Kaveh ◽

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Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

General Population ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

Goodness Of Fit ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Cronbach’S Alpha ◽

Cronbach's Alpha ◽

Persian Version ◽

Impact Of Events Scale ◽

The Impact

Objective: The aim of this study was to translate and evaluate the validity and reliability of the Impact of Events Scale-Revised (IES-R) among the Iranian general population during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.Method: This study was methodological cross-sectional. It was conducted on an Iranian public population from April to July 2020 which was during the COVID-19 pandemic. Construct validity was determined through exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with a total of 500 adults recruited via online data gathering. Reliability was checked through the average inter-item correlation (AIC), Cronbach's alpha, and McDonald's omega. Convergent and divergent validity was determined using Fornell and Larcker's approach.Results: The results showed that the Persian version of IES-R had three factors, including intrusion (six items), avoidance (seven items), and hyperarousal (five items), that explained 59.22% of the total variance of the IES-R. The CFA findings indicated that all goodness-of-fit indices confirmed the model fit. The Cronbach's alpha, McDonald's omega, composite reliability (CR), and maximal reliability were excellent, and the three factors have good convergent validity.Conclusion: The findings of this study indicated that the Persian version of the IES-R scale is efficient and useful to assess post-traumatic stress disorder among Iran general population in the COVID-19 outbreak.

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