Measurement Invariance of the General Health Questionnaire GHQ 12-Item Version (GHQ-12)

IF 3.2 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

European Journal of Psychological Assessment Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI:10.1027/1015-5759/a000785

Anastasia Ushakova, K. Mckenzie, C. Hughes, Johanna Stoye, A. Murray

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Abstract

Abstract: Understanding how levels, patterns, predictors, and outcomes of mental health issues differs in students relative to non-students can inform more effective and better tailored prevention and intervention for mental health in higher education contexts. However, comparisons of mental health in student and non-student groups depend on the critical but seldom-tested assumption of measurement invariance. In this study, we use data from the UK household longitudinal study (UKLS) to evaluate the measurement invariance of the scores from a commonly used mental health measure: the General Health Questionnaire 12-item version (GHQ-12) across students and non-students. Using a bifactor model to take account of wording factors we found measurement invariance up to the scalar level for students and non-student groups. This provides support for the use of instruments for comparing mental health issue levels and candidate risk factors and outcomes across students and non-students.

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一般健康问卷GHQ 12题版(GHQ-12)的测量不变性

摘要：了解学生与非学生的心理健康问题的水平、模式、预测因素和结果如何不同，可以为高等教育背景下更有效、更具针对性的心理健康预防和干预提供信息。然而，学生和非学生群体心理健康的比较取决于测量不变性这一关键但很少经过检验的假设。在这项研究中，我们使用英国家庭纵向研究（UKLS）的数据来评估一种常用的心理健康测量方法的得分的测量不变性：学生和非学生的一般健康问卷12项版本（GHQ-12）。使用双因子模型来考虑措辞因素，我们发现学生和非学生群体在标量水平上的测量不变性。这为使用工具比较学生和非学生的心理健康问题水平、候选风险因素和结果提供了支持。

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European Journal of Psychological Assessment PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

CiteScore

6.40

自引率

4.00%

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期刊介绍： The main purpose of the EJPA is to present important articles which provide seminal information on both theoretical and applied developments in this field. Articles reporting the construction of new measures or an advancement of an existing measure are given priority. The journal is directed to practitioners as well as to academicians: The conviction of its editors is that the discipline of psychological assessment should, necessarily and firmly, be attached to the roots of psychological science, while going deeply into all the consequences of its applied, practice-oriented development.