Construct Validity of the Adolescent Resilience Scale

The aim of this study was to assess the construct validity of the Adolescent Resilience Scale which measures the psychological features of resilient individuals. Research involving this scale, the Negative Life Events Scale, and the General Health Questionnaire was conducted with a group of 207 Japanese undergraduate students (104 men and 103 women; M age = 20.2 yr., SD =.9). A cluster analysis for the Negative Life Events Scale and General Health Questionnaire yielded three clusters: (1) mentally healthy with little experience of Negative Life Events, (2) poorer mental health with many experiences of Negative Life Events, (3) mentally healthy despite many experiences of Negative Life Events. These three groups were defined as (1) Well Adjusted, (2) Vulnerable, and (3) Resilient, respectively. Mean differences in scores on the Adolescent Resilience Scale among the three groups were subjected to one-way analysis of variance. The mean scores of both the Well Adjusted and Resilient groups were higher than that of the Vulnerable group, and therefore support the construct validity of the Adolescent Resilience Scale.

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Romantic Acts and Depression

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.2000.86.1.260 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 86 (1) ◽

pp. 260-262 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

John Maltby ◽

Liza Day

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Beck Depression Inventory ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

General Health ◽

General Health Questionnaire ◽

Depression Symptoms ◽

Health Questionnaire ◽

The Relationship

The aim of the present study was to provide an examination of the relationship between the importance individuals attach to romantic acts and depressive symptoms. Among 140 male and 160 female English undergraduate students, the importance individuals attach to romantic acts is significantly negatively correlated with higher scores on the Beck Depression Inventory and the Depression symptoms subscale of the General Health Questionnaire among the men only.

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Do Health Questionnaires Which Do Not Consider Sex Differences Miss Important Information?

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1997.81.1.163 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 81 (1) ◽

pp. 163-171 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Linda M. Gibson ◽

M. J. Cook

Keyword(s):

Sex Differences ◽

Sense Of Coherence ◽

General Health ◽

General Health Questionnaire ◽

Well Being ◽

Health Questionnaire ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽

Resilience Scale ◽

Health Questionnaires

The influence of gender on subsets of scores of Sense of Coherence, Hardiness, and personality traits was assessed in relation to psychological well-being using the Sense of Coherence Questionnaire, the Dispositional Resilience Scale, the Eysenck Personality Inventory, and the 12-item General Health Questionnaire. In a sample of Open University students (67 men aged 21 to 71 years and 239 women aged 19 to 66 years) sex differences were found in subsets of scores of Sense of Coherence, Hardiness, personality, and psychological well-being.

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Neuroticism and psychological distress: To what extent is their association due to person-environment correlation?

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2009.11.003 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 1-5 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

G.B. Ploubidis ◽

S. Frangou

Keyword(s):

Psychological Distress ◽

High Risk ◽

Life Events ◽

General Health ◽

General Health Questionnaire ◽

Health Questionnaire ◽

Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽

Risk Environments ◽

Inherent Vulnerability ◽

Second Wave

AbstractObjectiveTo examine to what extent the association between neuroticism and psychological distress is related to individuals’ inherent vulnerability or their tendency to self-select high-risk environments or situations.MethodData was drawn from both waves (1984/1985 and 1991) of the Health and Lifestyle Survey. Psychological distress was evaluated using the 30-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30) and neuroticism was assessed with the Eysenck Personality Inventory. A checklist of life events was completed in the second wave only. A Latent State Trait model was estimated to decompose psychological distress into its environmental-contextual and individual-specific components.ResultsNeuroticism accounted for 31 and 10% respectively of the variance of the environmental-contextual and individual-specific psychological distress components.ConclusionsOur results favour the notion that individuals with high-levels of neuroticism tend to self-select situations likely to lead to adversity and distress.

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Construct validity and internal consistency of three factor structures and two scoring methods of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire

Biomédica ◽

10.7705/biomedica.v37i3.3240 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 308 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Miguel Simancas-Pallares ◽

Katherine Margarita Arrieta ◽

Luisa Leonor Arévalo

Keyword(s):

Construct Validity ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

General Health ◽

General Health Questionnaire ◽

Health Questionnaire ◽

Scoring Methods ◽

Three Factor

Introducción. El análisis de las propiedades psicométricas de un instrumento reviste importancia para el control de sesgos en la medición.Objetivo. Comparar la validez de constructo y la consistencia interna de tres estructuras factoriales del cuestionario de salud general de 12 ítems.Materiales y métodos. Se hizo un estudio de validación en una muestra anidada de 483 estudiantes de odontología de Cartagena, Colombia. Además de las preguntas del instrumento, se hicieron otras sobre aspectos personales. Se evaluó la validez de constructo de la estructura unidimensional, de la unidimensional con corrección del sesgo de respuesta, y de la de dos y tres factores y sistemas de puntuación del tipo de la escala de Likert (0-1-2-3) y dicotómico (0-0-1-1). La validez se determinó con un análisis factorial confirmatorio y, la consistencia interna, con el coeficiente alfa de Cronbach para la escala de Likert y la fórmula 20 de Kuder-Richardson para el método dicotómico empleando los programas Stata™, versión 13.2 (Stata Corp, USA) y Mplus™, versión 7.11 (Muthen and Muthen, USA).Resultados. Los índices de ajuste revelaron que el mejor modelo era el unidimensional con corrección del sesgo de respuesta y puntación dicotómica (grados de libertad=36; ji al cuadrado=52,432; raíz cuadrada del error medio de aproximación=0,03; IC90% 0,008-0,048; índice comparativo de ajuste=0,982; índice de Tucker-Lewis=0,966). La consistencia interna fue de 0,70.Conclusiones. El ajuste del modelo obtenido en este estudio permitió controlar el sesgo de medición y, así, garantizar la validez externa de los resultados del uestionario de salud general de 12 ítems para la evaluación de las condiciones mentales en esta población. Las propiedades psicométricas de las escalas deben evaluarse críticamente antes del análisis de los resultados.

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