Department of Educational Foundations and Development, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Centre of Multiculturalism and Education Policy, Multidisciplinary Research Institute, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2024 May;33(5):1563-1572. doi: 10.1007/s00787-023-02268-8. Epub 2023 Jul 31.
The Mood and Feelings Questionnaire-child self-report (MFQ-C) is a widely used measure of child and adolescent depression. This study evaluated possible factor solutions and examined the measurement invariance of the MFQ-C as a prerequisite for its use in cross-cultural comparisons between Thai (N = 1272) and British samples (N = 1817) by using multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA). The latent means of Thai and British samples were also examined. A five-factor structure of the MFQ-C was confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis. A partial scalar invariant model was supported, and thus latent means were compared, with British adolescents reporting significantly higher mean MFQ-C scores than Thai adolescents on four of the five factors (Vegetative Symptoms, Suicidality, Cognitive Symptoms, Agitated Distress). There was no difference for the Core Symptoms factor. The findings also suggest that the MFQ-C is a valid measure to assess depression in Thai and British adolescents and maybe useful in cross-cultural comparisons of adolescent depression.
心境与情绪问卷儿童自评版（MFQ-C）是一种广泛应用于儿童和青少年抑郁评估的工具。本研究采用多群组验证性因子分析（MGCFA），对该问卷进行了因子分析和测量不变性检验，旨在为后续在泰国（N=1272）和英国（N=1817）青少年样本中进行跨文化比较奠定基础。本研究还对泰国和英国样本的潜在均值进行了检验。通过验证性因子分析，MFQ-C 被证实具有五因子结构。部分标度不变模型得到支持，因此对潜在均值进行了比较，结果显示英国青少年在五个因子中的四个因子（植物神经症状、自杀意念、认知症状、激越性痛苦）上的 MFQ-C 得分显著高于泰国青少年，而在核心症状因子上则没有差异。研究结果还表明，MFQ-C 是评估泰国和英国青少年抑郁的有效工具，可能有助于青少年抑郁的跨文化比较。
