Area of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment, Department of Health Psychology, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Elche, Spain.
Department of Basic and Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain.
J Med Internet Res. 2021 Dec 1;23(12):e31127. doi: 10.2196/31127.
The short form, 17-item version of the Pediatric Symptom Checklist-Youth Self-Report (PSC-17-Y) is a validated measure that assesses psychosocial problems overall (OVR) and in 3 major psychopathological domains (internalizing, externalizing, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), taking 5-10 min to complete. Prior research has established sound psychometric properties of the PSC-17-Y for English speakers.
This study extends psychometric evidence for the acceptability of the PSC-17-Y in a large sample of Spanish adolescents, providing proof of its reliability and structure, convergent and discriminant validity, and longitudinal and gender invariance.
Data were collected on 5430 adolescents, aged 12-18 years, who filled out the PSC-17-Y twice during 2018-2019 (7-month interval). We calculated the Cronbach alpha and the McDonald omega coefficients to test reliability, the Pearson correlation for convergent (distress) and criterion validity (well-being, quality of life, and socioemotional skills), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for structure validity, and multigroup and longitudinal measurement invariance analysis for longitudinal and gender stability.
Within structural analysis for the PSC-17-Y, CFA supported a correlated 3-factor solution, which was also invariant longitudinally and across gender. All 3 subscales showed evidence of reliability, with coefficients near or above .70. Moreover, scores of PSC-17-Y subscales were positively related with convergent measures and negatively related with criterion measures. Normative data for the PSC-17-Y are presented in the form of percentiles (75th and 90th).
This work provides the first evidence of the reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the PSC-17-Y administered over the internet to assess mental health problems among adolescents, maintaining the same domains as the long version.
儿科症状清单-青少年自我报告（PSC-17-Y）的简短形式，17 项版本是一种经过验证的衡量标准，可全面评估心理社会问题（OVR）和 3 个主要心理病理学领域（内化、外化和注意力缺陷/多动障碍），完成测试需要 5-10 分钟。先前的研究已经为英语使用者的 PSC-17-Y 提供了可靠的心理测量学证据。
本研究通过对 5430 名 12-18 岁的青少年进行的大样本研究，扩展了 PSC-17-Y 在西班牙青少年中可接受性的心理测量学证据，证明了其可靠性和结构、收敛和判别有效性以及纵向和性别不变性。
2018-2019 年期间，5430 名青少年两次填写 PSC-17-Y，两次填写之间的时间间隔为 7 个月。我们计算了 Cronbach 阿尔法和 McDonald 欧米茄系数以测试可靠性，皮尔逊相关用于收敛（困扰）和标准有效性（幸福感、生活质量和社会情感技能），验证性因素分析（CFA）用于结构有效性，多组和纵向测量不变性分析用于纵向和性别稳定性。
在 PSC-17-Y 的结构分析中，CFA 支持相关的 3 因素解决方案，该解决方案在纵向和性别方面也具有不变性。所有 3 个分量表都显示出可靠性的证据，系数接近或高于 0.70。此外，PSC-17-Y 分量表的分数与收敛性测量呈正相关，与标准性测量呈负相关。PSC-17-Y 的规范数据以百分比（第 75 百分位和第 90 百分位）的形式呈现。
这项工作首次提供了通过互联网评估青少年心理健康问题的 PSC-17-Y 西班牙版本的可靠性和有效性的证据，保持了与长版本相同的领域。
