Response Shift and Measurement Invariance of Chronic Stressor Scale.

IF 1.4 4区医学 Q3 NURSING

Journal of Transcultural Nursing Pub Date : 2025-10-07 DOI:10.1177/10436596251377079

Wan-Chin Kuo, Rachel Hawn, Roger L Brown

{"title":"Response Shift and Measurement Invariance of Chronic Stressor Scale.","authors":"Wan-Chin Kuo, Rachel Hawn, Roger L Brown","doi":"10.1177/10436596251377079","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Troxel's Chronic Stressor Scale (CSS) is widely used in survey-based comparative research to investigate racial or gender differences in stress-health relationships, but its measurement invariance remains untested. This study aimed to examine the measurement invariance of CSS across age, gender, race, ethnicity, and temporality.Methods: This analysis used the longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (N = 2,263). Model fit was evaluated using infit/outfit statistics, person/item separation, and reliability indices. Differential Item Functioning (DIF) was assessed using Rasch's Rating Scale Model.Results: CSS demonstrated strong item reliability but poor person reliability. Significant DIF was identified in housing stress between Black and White Americans, in self-health stress and occupational stress between younger and older groups, and financial stress between 2012 and 2020.Discussion: Despite strong item reliability, CSS's significant DIF across race, age, and temporality suggests caution when directly comparing composite or item scores across diverse populations and time points.","PeriodicalId":49969,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transcultural Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"10436596251377079"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Transcultural Nursing","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10436596251377079","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"NURSING","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Introduction: Troxel's Chronic Stressor Scale (CSS) is widely used in survey-based comparative research to investigate racial or gender differences in stress-health relationships, but its measurement invariance remains untested. This study aimed to examine the measurement invariance of CSS across age, gender, race, ethnicity, and temporality.

Methods: This analysis used the longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (N = 2,263). Model fit was evaluated using infit/outfit statistics, person/item separation, and reliability indices. Differential Item Functioning (DIF) was assessed using Rasch's Rating Scale Model.

Results: CSS demonstrated strong item reliability but poor person reliability. Significant DIF was identified in housing stress between Black and White Americans, in self-health stress and occupational stress between younger and older groups, and financial stress between 2012 and 2020.

Discussion: Despite strong item reliability, CSS's significant DIF across race, age, and temporality suggests caution when directly comparing composite or item scores across diverse populations and time points.

查看原文本刊更多论文

慢性应激源量表的反应移位与测量不变性。

Troxel的慢性应激源量表（Chronic stress sor Scale， CSS）被广泛应用于基于调查的比较研究中，以调查应激健康关系中的种族或性别差异，但其测量的不变性尚未得到检验。本研究旨在检验CSS在年龄、性别、种族、民族和时间性方面的测量不变性。方法：本分析使用来自健康与退休研究（N = 2263）的纵向数据。模型拟合评估使用内部/装备统计，人/项目分离，和可靠性指标。差异项目功能（DIF）采用Rasch评定量表模型进行评估。结果：CSS具有较强的项目信度，较差的人信度。在2012年至2020年期间，美国黑人和白人的住房压力、年轻人和老年人的自我健康压力和职业压力以及财务压力中发现了显著的DIF。讨论：尽管有很强的项目可靠性，CSS在种族、年龄和时间性方面的显著DIF表明，在直接比较不同人群和时间点的综合得分或项目得分时要谨慎。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of Transcultural Nursing 医学-护理

CiteScore

4.60

自引率

4.80%

发文量

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Journal of Transcultural Nursing (TCN) is a peer-reviewed journal that offers nurses, educators, researchers, and practitioners theoretical approaches and current research findings that have direct implications for the delivery of culturally congruent health care and for the preparation of health care professionals who will provide that care. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).