Negi Nalini Junko, Iwamoto Derek Kenji
School of Social Work, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
University of Maryland-College Park, College Park, MD, USA.
Res Soc Work Pract. 2014 May;24(3):364-371. doi: 10.1177/1049731513507980. Epub 2013 Oct 18.
This study examines the factor structure of the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18; Derogatis, 2001) in a hard-to-reach population of mainly undocumented migrant Latino day laborers. While, the BSI-18 has been found to be a valid and reliable measure of psychological distress, cross-cultural assessments in sub-groups of Latinos are scarce withthis being the first study to examine the factor structure of the Spanish version of the BSI-18 with this population.
A series of principal axis exploratory factor analytic procedures examining one to three-factor models were performed with a street recruited sample of 150 Latino migrant day laborers.
A one-factor model emerged and four items were dropped due to low factor loadings. The internal consistency coefficients for the 14-item BSI was α = .87.
Findings suggest that the revised BSI-18 appears to measure a single dimension of general somatic-psychological distress in this sample of Latinos.
本研究考察了简易症状问卷-18(BSI-18;德罗加蒂斯,2001)在一个主要由无证流动拉丁裔日工组成的难以接触到的人群中的因子结构。虽然,BSI-18已被发现是一种有效且可靠的心理困扰测量工具,但针对拉丁裔亚群体的跨文化评估却很少,本研究是首个考察西班牙文版BSI-18在此人群中因子结构的研究。
对通过街头招募的150名拉丁裔流动日工样本进行了一系列主轴探索性因子分析程序,检验一至三因子模型。
出现了一个单因子模型,4个项目因因子载荷低而被剔除。14项BSI的内部一致性系数为α = 0.87。
研究结果表明,修订后的BSI-18似乎在这个拉丁裔样本中测量了一般躯体-心理困扰的单一维度。