Department of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA.
Aging Ment Health. 2010 Nov;14(8):962-70. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2010.501060.
In order to better understand if measurement problems underlie the inconsistent findings that exist regarding differences in depression levels between Black and White caregivers, this study examined the factor structure and invariance of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression (CES-D) Scale.
A confirmatory factor analysis of the 20-item CES-D was performed on a sample of 167 Black and 214 White family caregivers of older adults with dementia from Los Angeles County.
The relationships between the 20 items and the four factors, as well as the relationships among each of the factors, were equivalent across both caregiver groups, indicating that the four-factor model fit the data for both the racial groups.
These findings offer further evidence that the standard four-factor model is the best fitting model for the CES-D and is invariant across racial groups.
为了更好地理解在黑人和白人照顾者之间的抑郁水平差异存在不一致的发现背后是否存在测量问题，本研究检查了流行病学研究中心抑郁量表（CES-D）的因子结构和不变性。
对来自洛杉矶县的 167 名黑人和 214 名白人老年痴呆症患者家庭照顾者的样本进行了 20 项 CES-D 的验证性因子分析。
20 个项目与四个因素之间的关系，以及每个因素之间的关系，在两个照顾者群体中都是等效的，这表明四因素模型适合两个种族群体的数据。
这些发现进一步证明，标准的四因素模型是 CES-D 的最佳拟合模型，并且在种族群体之间是不变的。
