Section of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Passeig Vall d'Hebron, 171, 08035, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
J Immigr Minor Health. 2023 Dec;25(6):1339-1353. doi: 10.1007/s10903-023-01520-2. Epub 2023 Jul 17.
The concept of acculturative stress has been the subject of debate, resulting in contradictory arguments regarding its measurement. Many of the existing acculturative stress instruments have been developed for use with specific migrant groups. The objective of the current study is to revisit the psychometric properties of the Barcelona Immigration Stress Scale, an instrument aimed at measuring stress levels associated with the migration trajectory in any migrant group. Using a sample of 915 migrants who consulted in primary care, we carried out principal component and confirmatory factor analyses as well as item response theory analyses applied both to the entire sample and to different migratory groups separately. The new reduced version of the scale has very good psychometric properties both in general and applied to the Latino migratory group, the largest in the area where the study was carried out. Results were acceptable among sub-Saharan, North African, and Asian groups but not among Eastern Europeans. These results are discussed through the specificities of each migratory group and the limitations of psychometrics to capture the complexity of immigration-related and acculturative stress.
文化适应压力的概念一直是争议的主题，导致对其测量的争论不一。许多现有的文化适应压力量表都是为特定的移民群体开发的。本研究的目的是重新审视巴塞罗那移民压力量表的心理测量特性，该量表旨在衡量与任何移民群体的移民轨迹相关的压力水平。使用在初级保健中就诊的 915 名移民样本，我们进行了主成分和验证性因子分析以及项目反应理论分析，既应用于整个样本，也分别应用于不同的移民群体。该量表的新简化版本在一般情况下以及在研究地区最大的拉丁裔移民群体中具有很好的心理测量特性。在撒哈拉以南非洲、北非和亚洲群体中的结果是可以接受的，但在东欧群体中则不然。通过每个移民群体的特殊性以及心理测量学捕捉与移民和文化适应相关的压力的复杂性的局限性来讨论这些结果。
