Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Cognitivas, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile.
Millennium Science Initiative Program, ANID, Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths, Santiago, Chile.
Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2023 Jul 24;21(1):78. doi: 10.1186/s12955-023-02163-5.
Psychosocial functioning is closely associated with psychopathology and wellbeing in different populations, particularly adolescents. Despite its relevance, measures assessing psychosocial functioning in healthy adolescents are scant as most focus on adults or clinical populations. We evaluated the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Adolescent Functioning Scale (MAFS), a self-report questionnaire created to assess three dimensions of psychosocial functioning ('general functioning', 'family-related functioning', and 'peer-related functioning') in adolescents from the general population.
After translation and cultural adaptation, we administered the Spanish MAFS to 619 adolescents aged 14 to 19. We assessed the factor structure, internal consistency, and associations with depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, cognitive-behavioral skills, cognitive reappraisal (CR), and expressive suppression (ES). We additionally tested for measurement invariance based on biological sex.
The original three-factor structure showed the best fit. Internal consistency was good for the total scale (ω = 0.874; α = 0.869; GLB = 0.939, r=0.216) and for all subscales (ω = 0.806-0.839; α = 0.769 to 0.812; GLB = 0.861-0.873). Correlations between all three MAFS subscales were significant, ranging between 0.291 and 0.554. All MAFS subscales correlated positively and significantly with cognitive-behavioral skills and adaptive regulatory strategies and negatively with depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation.
The Spanish MAFS translation is a valid and reliable self-report measure to assess three domains of psychosocial functioning in adolescents aged 14-19 from the general population.
社会心理功能与不同人群（尤其是青少年）的精神病理学和幸福感密切相关。尽管其相关性很重要，但评估健康青少年社会心理功能的方法却很少，因为大多数方法都集中在成年人或临床人群上。我们评估了多维青少年功能量表（MAFS）的心理测量特性，这是一种自我报告问卷，用于评估一般人群中青少年的三个社会心理功能维度（“一般功能”，“家庭相关功能”和“同伴相关功能”）。
经过翻译和文化适应后，我们对 619 名年龄在 14 至 19 岁的青少年进行了西班牙 MAFS 测试。我们评估了因子结构，内部一致性以及与抑郁症状，自杀意念，认知行为技能，认知重评（CR）和表达抑制（ES）的关联。我们还根据生物性别测试了测量不变性。
最初的三因素结构显示出最佳拟合度。总量表的内部一致性良好（ω=0.874；α=0.869；GLB=0.939，r=0.216），并且所有子量表的内部一致性也良好（ω=0.806-0.839；α=0.769 至 0.812；GLB=0.861-0.873）。所有三个 MAFS 子量表之间的相关性均具有统计学意义，范围在 0.291 到 0.554 之间。MAFS 的所有子量表均与认知行为技能和适应性调节策略呈正相关，与抑郁症状和自杀意念呈负相关。
西班牙 MAFS 翻译是一种有效的和可靠的自我报告措施，可用于评估来自一般人群的 14-19 岁青少年的三个社会心理功能领域。
