Redican Enya, Rawers Caitlyn, McElroy Eoin, Hyland Philip, Karatzias Thanos, Ben-Ezra Menachem, Shevlin Mark
Ulster University, School of Psychology, Cromore Road, Coleraine, Co, Londonderry, BT52 1SA UK.
Department of Psychology, Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland.
Advers Resil Sci. 2023 Apr 29:1-10. doi: 10.1007/s42844-023-00097-x.
The Memories of Home and Family Scale (MHFS; Shevlin et al., 2022) was developed as a multidimensional measure of subjective memories of experiences at home and with family during childhood. Due to the length of the scale, a short version of the MHFS (MHFS-SF) has been developed. Data were from Wave 7 of the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium Study (C19PRC-UK), a population based UK survey ( = 1405). Two items with the highest factor loadings from each of the six dimensions of the original MHFS were selected for inclusion. Confirmatory factor analytic (CFA) models were estimated to test the dimensionality of the scale. Convergent and discriminant validity were tested by examining associations with criterion variables. CFA results supported the multidimensionality of the scale. MHFS-SF total and sub-scale scores were negatively correlated with measures of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and paranoia, and were positively correlated with wellbeing. Regression analyses revealed that MHFS-SF total and sub-scale scores significantly predicted loneliness, paranoia, and wellbeing, even after accounting for age, gender, and current internalising symptoms. Results from this study suggest that the MHFS-SF scores retain the excellent psychometric properties of the original scale while improving efficiency. The MHFS-SF demonstrated high levels of convergent and discriminant validity with mental health and wellbeing measures. Future research should seek to validate the MHFS-SF in different populations and assess its usefulness in clinical settings.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42844-023-00097-x.
家庭与家人记忆量表（MHFS；谢夫林等人，2022年）是作为一种对童年时期在家中和与家人相处经历的主观记忆的多维测量工具而开发的。由于该量表篇幅较长，因此开发了一个简短版本的MHFS（MHFS-SF）。数据来自COVID-19心理研究联盟研究（C19PRC-UK）的第7波，这是一项基于英国人口的调查（n = 1405）。从原始MHFS的六个维度中各选出两个因子载荷最高的项目纳入其中。估计验证性因子分析（CFA）模型以检验该量表的维度。通过检查与标准变量的关联来测试收敛效度和区分效度。CFA结果支持该量表的多维性。MHFS-SF总分及各子量表得分与抑郁、焦虑、孤独和偏执的测量指标呈负相关，与幸福感呈正相关。回归分析表明，即使在考虑了年龄、性别和当前内化症状之后，MHFS-SF总分及各子量表得分仍能显著预测孤独、偏执和幸福感。本研究结果表明，MHFS-SF得分在提高效率的同时保留了原始量表出色的心理测量特性。MHFS-SF在心理健康和幸福感测量方面表现出较高的收敛效度和区分效度。未来的研究应致力于在不同人群中验证MHFS-SF，并评估其在临床环境中的实用性。
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