Ros L, Meléndez J C, Webster J D, Mayordomo T, Sales A, Latorre J M, Serrano J P
Department of Psychology,Faculty of Medicine,University of Castilla La Mancha,Albacete-02006,Spain;Research Institute of Neurological Disabilities,University of Castilla La Mancha,Albacete-02006,Spain.
Department of Developmental Psychology,Faculty of Psychology,Valencia-46010,Spain.
Int Psychogeriatr. 2016 Sep;28(9):1521-32. doi: 10.1017/S1041610216000326. Epub 2016 Mar 9.
The reminiscence functions scale (RFS) is a 43-item self-report instrument designed to assess the use of reminiscence for different functions. This study aims, on one hand, to analyze the factorial structure and the psychometric properties of the RFS and, on the other, to examine the relationship between the functions of reminiscence and mental health.
RFS scale and measures of depressive symptomology, despair, and life satisfaction were administered to a sample of persons over the age of sixty (n = 364).
After eliminating three conflictive items from the original scale, the confirmatory factor analysis results present a factorial structure comprising eight traditional factors and adequate reliability scores (from 0.73 to 0.87). Using structural equation modeling, we find that these reminiscence factors are organized in three second-order factors (self-positive, self-negative, and prosocial). Results show that the self-positive factor relates negatively and the self-negative factor relates positively with symptoms of mental health problems.
These results, on one hand, confirm that the RFS scale is a useful instrument to assess reminiscence functions in a sample of Spanish older adults and, on the other, that the three-factor model of reminiscence is a better predictor of mental health than the alternative four-factor model.
回忆功能量表（RFS）是一种包含43个条目的自评工具，旨在评估回忆在不同功能中的运用情况。本研究一方面旨在分析RFS的因子结构和心理测量特性，另一方面旨在探究回忆功能与心理健康之间的关系。
对60岁以上的人群样本（n = 364）施测RFS量表以及抑郁症状、绝望感和生活满意度的测量工具。
从原始量表中剔除三个有冲突的条目后，验证性因子分析结果呈现出一个包含八个传统因子且具有足够信度分数（从0.73到0.87）的因子结构。使用结构方程模型，我们发现这些回忆因子被组织成三个二阶因子（自我积极、自我消极和亲社会）。结果表明，自我积极因子与心理健康问题症状呈负相关，自我消极因子与心理健康问题症状呈正相关。
这些结果一方面证实了RFS量表是评估西班牙老年人群样本中回忆功能的有用工具，另一方面证实了回忆的三因子模型比替代的四因子模型更能预测心理健康。
