Department of Social Psychology, Toyo University, 5-28-20 Hakusan, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8606, Japan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 May 16;18(10):5298. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18105298.
The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale has been widely used to measure depressive symptoms. This study compared the measurement invariances for one-, two-, three-, and four-factor models of the CES-D across English-speaking Whites and Asians: White Americans, White Australians, Indians, Filipinos, and Singaporeans. White Americans and Australians, Indians, Filipinos, and Singaporeans English speakers (782 men and 824 women) whose ages ranged from 20 to 79 years, completed the CES-D. They were recruited from the data pool of the 2013 and 2014 Coping and Health Survey. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the original four-factor model showed the best fit, compared to the other models. Mean and covariance structure analyses showed that the factor means of the CES-D subscales among Whites were significantly lower than were those among Asians; the score gap was particularly high between Whites and Indians. Additionally, Indians scored the highest on all subscales of the CES-D compared to all other countries. Overall, CES-D scores among Whites were lower than those among Asians.
流行病学研究抑郁量表（CES-D）被广泛用于测量抑郁症状。本研究比较了 CES-D 的单、双、三、四因子模型在英语为母语的白人和亚洲人（美国白人、澳大利亚白人、印度人、菲律宾人和新加坡人）中的测量不变性。年龄在 20 至 79 岁之间的美国白人和澳大利亚白人、印度人、菲律宾人和新加坡人英语使用者（782 名男性和 824 名女性）从 2013 年和 2014 年应对与健康调查的数据池中招募而来。验证性因子分析表明，与其他模型相比，原始的四因子模型具有最佳的拟合度。均值和协方差结构分析表明，白人组 CES-D 子量表的因子均值显著低于亚洲人组；白人和印度人之间的得分差距尤其高。此外，与其他所有国家相比，印度人在 CES-D 的所有子量表上的得分都最高。总体而言，白人的 CES-D 得分低于亚洲人。
