Sam Houston State University, Department of Psychology, Huntsville, Texas, United States.
University of Houston Department of Psychology, Houston, Texas, United States.
Psychiatry Res. 2021 Jul;301:113954. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113954. Epub 2021 Apr 22.
In recent years, there has been a large increase in the number of youth and families emigrating from Central America to the United States to escape extreme violence and crime victimization. As a result, the rate of trauma-exposure and trauma-related distress among this population is alarmingly high and necessitates representation of this population in psychological research, particularly related to trauma symptom measurement. The broad aim of the current study was to examine the psychometric performance of caregiver-reported data on one such instrument intended to measure youth trauma symptoms. Specifically, we sought to document the psychometric performance of the Child PTSD Symptoms Scale (CPSS) with recently immigrated Spanish-Speaking youth and caregivers from Central America by examining the convergent, divergent, and concurrent validity of the caregiver-report form. Overall, the measure showed psychometric promise as it broadly demonstrated adequate concurrent and convergent. Results also suggested that further research is needed to better understand how to reduce the comorbidity that is often depicted in caregiver reports, which can lead to poor discriminant validity. Regardless, current findings suggest the appropriateness of incorporating caregiver reports of youth trauma in Spanish-speaking, recently immigrated youth.
近年来，越来越多的中美洲青年和家庭移民到美国，以逃避极端暴力和犯罪的侵害。因此，这一人群的创伤暴露率和与创伤相关的痛苦率高得惊人，这就需要在心理研究中代表这一人群，特别是与创伤症状测量有关的研究。本研究的主要目的是检验一种用于测量青少年创伤症状的工具的 caregiver 报告数据的心理计量学性能。具体来说，我们通过检查 caregiver 报告形式的收敛性、发散性和同时效度，来记录最近从中美洲移民而来的讲西班牙语的青年和照顾者的儿童创伤后应激症状量表（CPSS）的心理计量学性能。总的来说，该测量方法具有良好的心理计量学前景，因为它广泛地表现出了足够的同时和收敛效度。结果还表明，需要进一步研究如何减少 caregiver 报告中经常描述的共病现象，这可能会导致判别效度不佳。尽管如此，目前的研究结果表明，在讲西班牙语的最近移民的青年中，纳入 caregiver 报告的青少年创伤是合适的。
