Rodríguez-Jiménez Tíscar, Vidal-Arenas Verónica, Falcó Raquel, Moreno-Amador Beatriz, Marzo Juan C, Piqueras José A
Department of Psychology and Sociology, University of Zaragoza, Teruel, Spain.
Department of Basic and Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Jaume I University, Castellón de la Plana, Spain.
Child Youth Care Forum. 2023 Jun 3:1-21. doi: 10.1007/s10566-023-09758-5.
The Social Emotional Distress Scale-Secondary (SEDS-S) is a short measure designed for comprehensive school-based mental health screening, particularly for using very brief self-reported measures of well-being and distress. Whereas prior studies have shown validity and reliability evidence for the English version, there is a lack of literature about its psychometric properties for Spanish-speaking youths.
To examine the psychometric properties of the SEDS-S in a large sample of Spanish adolescents, providing evidence of its reliability, structure, convergent and discriminant validity, longitudinal and gender measurement invariance, and normative data.
Participants were 5550 adolescents aged 12-18 years old. Test-retest reliability was examined using Cronbach's alpha and McDonald's omega coefficients, and evidence for convergent and discriminant validity was measured using Pearson's correlation. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to examine structure validity, while multigroup and longitudinal measurement invariance analysis was conducted for longitudinal and gender latent structure stability.
The CFA supported a unidimensional latent structure, which was also observed to be invariant between gender groups and over time. The scale showed evidence of reliability, with coefficients above .85. In addition, the SEDS-S score was positively related to measures assessing distress and negatively related to measures assessing well-being, thereby providing convergent/discriminant validity of the total scores.
This study provides the first evidence of the reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the SEDS-S for assessing emotional distress among adolescents, cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Furthermore, findings indicated that SEDS-S could be a suitable assessment tool for screening and program evaluation purposes at different contexts beyond the school setting.
社会情绪困扰量表-第二版（SEDS-S）是一种简短的测量工具，专为基于学校的全面心理健康筛查而设计，特别是用于使用非常简短的自我报告幸福感和困扰程度的测量方法。虽然先前的研究已经展示了英文版的有效性和可靠性证据，但缺乏关于其在说西班牙语的青少年中的心理测量特性的文献。
在大量西班牙青少年样本中检验SEDS-S的心理测量特性，提供其可靠性、结构、聚合效度和区分效度、纵向和性别测量不变性以及常模数据的证据。
参与者为5550名12至18岁的青少年。使用克朗巴哈系数和麦克唐纳欧米伽系数检验重测信度，使用皮尔逊相关系数测量聚合效度和区分效度的证据。使用验证性因素分析（CFA）检验结构效度，同时进行多组和纵向测量不变性分析以检验纵向和性别潜在结构的稳定性。
CFA支持单维潜在结构，该结构在性别组之间和不同时间也被观察到是不变的。该量表显示出可靠性证据，系数高于0.85。此外，SEDS-S得分与评估困扰程度的测量方法呈正相关，与评估幸福感的测量方法呈负相关，从而提供了总分的聚合/区分效度。
本研究首次提供了西班牙语版SEDS-S在横断面和纵向评估青少年情绪困扰方面的可靠性和有效性证据。此外，研究结果表明，SEDS-S可能是一种适用于学校环境之外不同背景下的筛查和项目评估目的的评估工具。
