School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3Canada.
School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, 302-6190 Agronomy Road Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3Canada; School of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 302-6190 Agronomy Road Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3Canada.
Addict Behav. 2014 Mar;39(3):690-4. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.10.016. Epub 2013 Nov 7.
Gender may influence the psychometric properties of psychological and affect-related measures. The American Psychological Association has made recommendations to conduct tests of group-level measurement invariance (MI) before comparing scores between groups. Gender-based measurement invariance has been examined in many well-known psycho-social scales such as the CES-D and the Big Five Inventory. The Substance Use Risk Profile is a 23-item scale measuring affective- and personality-related traits known to increase risk for substance use, with 4 dimensions: anxiety sensitivity, hopelessness, sensation seeking and impulsivity. Despite similarities in the constructs assessed by the SURPS, the CES-D and the Big Five Inventory, gender-based measurement invariance of the SURPS has not yet been published. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis was used to assess the measurement invariance of the four dimensions of the SURPS across gender. MI was conducted with M-Plus 6.2 using a 2-step analysis for ordinal variables suggested by Muthén and Muthén, and model fit was assessed using the comparative fit index (CFI) criteria recommended by Cheung and Rensvold. A single group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was also conducted. The sample was composed of 1352 adolescents (56% female, mean age of 14years) participating in the BC Adolescent Substance Use Survey, an online survey capturing substance use and psychosocial trends in secondary students across British Columbia, Canada. Measurement invariance across gender was demonstrated for the SURPS (ΔCFI=0.003), and the single group CFA supported a four-dimensional structure for the SURPS items (CFI=0.92, RMSEA=061, 95% CI=0.058-0.065).
性别可能会影响心理和情感相关测量的心理计量学特性。美国心理协会建议在比较群体间的分数之前，进行群体水平测量不变性（MI）测试。许多著名的心理社会量表，如 CES-D 和大五人格量表，已经对基于性别的测量不变性进行了检验。物质使用风险特征是一种 23 项量表，用于测量已知增加物质使用风险的情感和人格相关特征，有 4 个维度：焦虑敏感性、绝望感、寻求刺激和冲动性。尽管 SURPS、CES-D 和大五人格量表评估的结构相似，但 SURPS 的基于性别的测量不变性尚未公布。多组验证性因素分析用于评估 SURPS 四个维度在性别上的测量不变性。MI 使用 M-Plus 6.2 进行，使用 Muthén 和 Muthén 建议的有序变量的 2 步分析，使用 Cheung 和 Rensvold 推荐的比较拟合指数（CFI）标准评估模型拟合度。还进行了单组验证性因素分析（CFA）。该样本由 1352 名青少年（56%为女性，平均年龄为 14 岁）组成，他们参加了不列颠哥伦比亚省青少年物质使用调查，这是一项在线调查，旨在捕捉加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省中学生的物质使用和心理社会趋势。SURPS 在性别上具有测量不变性（ΔCFI=0.003），并且单组 CFA 支持 SURPS 项目的四维度结构（CFI=0.92，RMSEA=0.061，95%CI=0.058-0.065）。
