McKay Michael, Andretta James, Perry John
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dept. of Psychology, Dublin, Ireland.
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.
Scand J Child Adolesc Psychiatr Psychol. 2019 May 30;7:81-87. doi: 10.21307/sjcapp-2019-011. eCollection 2019.
Stress is an important variable of consequence, particularly in adolescence, a period of intense physical and psychological change. The measurement of stress in adolescence has been widely discussed, and a number of versions of the Adolescent Stress Questionnaire (ASQ) have been developed and validated. The present study sought to examine the psychometric properties (model fit, invariance, internal consistency, and construct validity) of the ASQ-S, which was recently developed in a Swedish context.
The study was a secondary analysis of data gathered on the full ASQ. The ASQ-S retained nine of the ten ASQ scales, and a study in Swedish adolescents suggested that the scale was psychometrically valid, gender invariant, and that scores were internally consistent. This is the first study to examine the properties of the ASQ-S in an English-speaking population. Participants were high school children in the UK (N = 610, 61.0% girls) from school year 8 through 12.
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) revealed that the nine factor solution fit the data well (χ(288) = 751.60, CFI = 0.958, TLI = 0.948, SRMR = 0.040, RMSEA = 0.051 [90% CI = 0.047, 0.056]), and that scores were gender, school type (academic versus comprehensive), and school stage (junior versus middle high school) invariant. The nine scales correlated negatively with academic, social, and emotional self-efficacy scores, and self-esteem scores, to varying degrees. Girls reported higher stress levels than boys in six of the nine scales. A regression analysis, adjusted for gender and year in school, suggested that only the stress of peer pressure (negatively) was significantly related to adolescent alcohol use.
Overall this study suggests that the ASQ-S could be a valid measure of adolescent stress, although concerns remain regarding the convergent validity of scale scores.
压力是一个重要的结果变量，尤其是在青春期，这是一个身体和心理发生剧烈变化的时期。青少年压力的测量已经得到广泛讨论，并且已经开发并验证了多个版本的青少年压力问卷（ASQ）。本研究旨在检验最近在瑞典背景下开发的ASQ-S的心理测量特性（模型拟合度、不变性、内部一致性和结构效度）。
该研究是对完整ASQ收集的数据进行的二次分析。ASQ-S保留了ASQ十个量表中的九个，一项针对瑞典青少年的研究表明该量表在心理测量上是有效的、具有性别不变性，并且得分具有内部一致性。这是第一项在英语人群中检验ASQ-S特性的研究。参与者是英国8至12年级的高中生（N = 610，61.0%为女生）。
验证性因素分析（CFA）表明，九因素模型与数据拟合良好（χ(288) = 751.60，CFI = 0.958，TLI = 0.948，SRMR = 0.040，RMSEA = 0.051 [90% CI = 0.047, 0.056]），并且得分在性别、学校类型（学术型与综合型）和学校阶段（初中与高中）方面具有不变性。九个量表与学业、社交和情绪自我效能感得分以及自尊得分均呈不同程度的负相关。在九个量表中的六个量表上，女孩报告的压力水平高于男孩。一项经性别和在校年级调整的回归分析表明，只有同伴压力带来的压力（呈负相关）与青少年饮酒显著相关。
总体而言，本研究表明ASQ-S可能是青少年压力的有效测量工具，尽管量表得分的收敛效度仍存在问题。
