Psychometric properties of the Dutch-Flemish PROMIS® pediatric item banks Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in a general population

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. H. Klaufus ◽  
M. A. J. Luijten ◽  
E. Verlinden ◽  
M. F. van der Wal ◽  
L. Haverman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
General Population ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Item Banks

Psychometric Properties of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C)

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Ogliari ◽  
Simona Scaini ◽  
Michael J. Kofler ◽  
Valentina Lampis ◽  
Annalisa Zanoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Social Phobia ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
Child Anxiety ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
The Social ◽  
General Populations

Reliable and valid self-report questionnaires could be useful as initial screening instruments for social phobia in both clinical settings and general populations. The present study investigates the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C) in a sample of 228 children from the Italian general population aged 8 to 11. The children were asked to complete the Italian version of the SPAI-C and the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that social phobia can be conceptualized as a unitary construct consisting of five distinct but interrelated symptom clusters named Assertiveness, General Conversation, Physical/Cognitive Symptoms, Avoidance, and Public Performance. Internal consistency of the SPAI-C total scores and two subscales was good; correlations between SPAI-C total scores and SCARED total scores/subscales ranged from moderate to high (Generalized Anxiety Disorder, for social phobia), with the SCARED Social Phobia subscale as the best predictor of SPAI-C total scores. The results indicate that the SPAI-C is a reliable and sensitive instrument suitable for identifying Social Phobia in the young Italian general population.

Guilt and Shame Proneness Scale (GASP) Adaptation and Psychometric Properties in Spanish Population

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miquel Alabèrnia-Segura ◽  
Guillem Feixas ◽  
David Gallardo-Pujol
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Spanish Version ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Shame Proneness ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Back Translation ◽  
Adequate Reliability

Aims:To develop a Spanish version of the Guilt and Shame Proneness Scale (GASP) and evaluate its psychometric properties among a population in Spain.Methods:A Spanish version of the Guilt and Shame Proneness Scale (GASP) was developed by a Spanish and English speakers through translation and back-translation. The translated GASP was administered to a sample of Spanish general population. The validity and reliability of the scale were tested using standard statistical methods.Results:The translated version of the GASP scale was found to have outstanding domain coherence and language clarity. The tested scales have adequate reliability (>0.55). It is clear evidence of reliability given that the GASP is a scenario-based measure with only four items in each subscale. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the four-factor solution by yielding adequate results. Conclusions:This study presents the first validation of the GASP questionnaire with Spanish general population. GASP instrument was found to have satisfactory psychometric properties, resulting in a new moral and social research tool.

Moral Identity Questionnaire (MIQ) Adaptation and Psychometric Properties in Spanish Population

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miquel Alabèrnia-Segura ◽  
David Gallardo-Pujol ◽  
Guillem Feixas
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Spanish Version ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Back Translation ◽  
Adequate Reliability

Aims:To develop a Spanish version of the Moral Identity Questionnaire (MIQ) and evaluate its psychometric properties among a population in Spain.Methods:A Spanish version of the Moral Identity Questionnaire (MIQ) was developed by a Spanish and English speakers through translation and back-translation. The translated MIQ was administered to a sample of Spanish general population. The validity and reliability of the scale were tested using standard statistical methods.Results:The translated version of the MIQ scale was found to have outstanding domain coherence and language clarity. The tested scales have adequate reliability (>0.55). Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the two-factor solution by yielding adequate results. Conclusions:This study presents the first validation of the MIQ questionnaire with Spanish general population. MIQ instrument was found to have satisfactory psychometric properties, resulting in a new moral and social research tool.

scholarly journals Three Versions of the Perceived Stress Scale: Psychometric Evaluation in a Nationally Representative Sample of Chinese Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8312
Author(s):  
Zhuang She ◽  
Dan Li ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Ningning Zhou ◽  
Juzhe Xi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Perceived Stress Scale ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Stress Scale ◽  
Nationally Representative

(1) Background: The COVID-19 outbreak has created pressure in people’s daily lives, further threatening public health. Thus, it is important to assess people’s perception of stress during COVID-19 for both research and practical purposes. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is one of the most widely used instruments to measure perceived stress; however, previous validation studies focused on specific populations, possibly limiting the generalization of results. (2) Methods: This study tested the psychometric properties of three versions of the Chinese Perceived Stress Scale (CPSS-14, CPSS-10, and CPSS-4) in the Chinese general population during the COVID-19 pandemic. A commercial online survey was employed to construct a nationally representative sample of 1133 adults in Mainland China (548 males and 585 females) during a one-week period. (3) Results: The two-factor (positivity and negativity) solution for the three versions of the CPSS showed a good fit with the data. The CPSS-14 and CPSS-10 had very good reliability and the CPSS-4 showed acceptable reliability. Scores on all three versions of the CPSS were significantly correlated in the expected direction with health-related variables (e.g., depression, anxiety, and perceived COVID-19 risk), supporting the concurrent validity of the CPSS. (4) Conclusions: All three versions of the CPSS appear to be appropriate for use in research with samples of adults in the Chinese general population under the COVID-19 crisis. The CPSS-10 and CPSS-14 both have strong psychometric properties, but the CPSS-10 would have more utility because it is shorter than the CPSS-14. However, the CPSS-4 is an acceptable alternative when administration time is limited.

The Prevalence of Symptoms of Depression in An Australian General Population

1980 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
General Population ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Clinical Samples ◽  
Demographic Differences ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Depressive States

The prevalence of depressive symptoms was estimated in a random sample of an Australian general population by administration of the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (S.D.S.). Rates, calculated according to criteria derived from a previously studied clinical sample, were somewhat higher in this population than had been reported in similar studies elsewhere. It was reasoned that this finding related to the relative laxity of criteria employed in the present study. Socio-demographic influences on the reporting of depressive symptoms were evident, the most prominent of these being the sex of the subject. It was suggested that these influences may underlie socio-demographic differences in rates of recognized depressive states occurring within clinical samples.

Cognition as predictor of current and follow-up depressive symptoms in the general population

2009 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. P. Simons ◽  
N. Jacobs ◽  
C. Derom ◽  
E. Thiery ◽  
J. Jolles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
General Population

scholarly journals Symptoms of Depression in a Large Healthy Population Cohort are related to Subjective Memory Complaints and Memory Performance in Negative Contexts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Schweizer ◽  
Rogier A. Kievit ◽  
Tina Emery ◽  
Richard N. Henson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
General Population ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Healthy Population ◽  
Subjective Memory Complaints ◽  
Subjective Memory ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression ◽  
Memory Complaints ◽  
The Impact

AbstractDecades of research have investigated the impact of clinical depression on memory, which has revealed biases and in some cases impairments. However, little is understood about the effects of sub-clinical symptoms of depression on memory performance in the general population. Here we report the effects of symptoms of depression on memory problems in a large population-derived cohort (N = 2544), 87% of whom reported at least one symptom of depression. Specifically, we investigate the impact of depressive symptoms on subjective memory complaints, objective memory performance on a standard neuropsychological task and, in a subsample (n = 288), objective memory in affective contexts. There was a dissociation between subjective and objective memory performance, with depressive symptoms showing a robust relationship with self-reports of memory complaints, even after adjusting for age, gender, general cognitive ability and symptoms of anxiety, but not with performance on the standardised measure of verbal memory. Contrary to our expectations, hippocampal volume (assessed in a subsample, n = 592) did not account for significant variance in subjective memory, objective memory or depressive symptoms. Nonetheless, depressive symptoms were related to poorer memory for pictures presented in negative contexts, even after adjusting for memory for pictures in neutral contexts. Thus the symptoms of depression, associated with subjective memory complaints, appear better assessed by memory performance in affective contexts, rather than standardised memory measures. We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding the impact of depressive symptoms on memory functioning in the general population.

Psychometric Properties of 7- and 30-Day Versions of the PROMIS Emotional Distress Item Banks in an Australian Adult Sample

Assessment ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J. Batterham ◽  
Matthew Sunderland ◽  
Natacha Carragher ◽  
Alison L. Calear
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Emotional Distress ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Australian Population ◽  
Clinical Criteria ◽  
Gender And Education ◽  
Item Banks

This study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the PROMIS depression, anxiety, and anger item banks in a large Australian population-based sample. The study tested for unidimensionality; evaluated invariance across age, gender, and education; assessed local independence; and tested item bank scores as an indicator for clinical criteria. In addition, equivalence of the 7-day time frame against an alternative 30-day time frame was assessed. A sample of 3,175 Australian adults were recruited into the study through online advertising. All three item banks showed strong evidence of unidimensionality and parsimony, with no items showing local dependence. All items were invariant across age, gender, and education. The item banks were accurate in detecting clinical criteria for major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and panic disorder, although legacy measures designed for this purpose sometimes performed marginally better. Responses to the 30-day time frame were highly consistent with the original 7-day time frame. The study provided support for the validity of the PROMIS emotional distress item banks as measures of depression, anxiety, and anger in the Australian population, supporting the generalizability of the measures. The time frame chosen for assessing mental health outcomes using these item banks should be based on pragmatic considerations.

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