School of Health Sciences and Psychology, Federation University, Ballarat, Australia.
Applied Health, School of Health and Biomedical Science, RMIT University, 264 Plenty Rd, Mill Park, Melbourne, VIC, 3082, Australia.
Psychiatr Q. 2024 Dec;95(4):561-577. doi: 10.1007/s11126-024-10087-6. Epub 2024 Aug 29.
The Bergen-Yale Sexual Addiction Scale (BYSAS; [1]) is arguably the most popular questionnaire at present for assessing sex addiction. Employing Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and treating item scores as ordered categorical, we applied Weighted Least Square Mean and Variance Adjusted Chi-Square (WLSMV) extraction to investigate the longitudinal measurement and structural invariance of ratings on the BYSAS among 276 adults (mean = 31.86 years; SD = 9.94 years; 71% male) over a two-year period, with ratings at three yearly intervals. Overall, there was support for configural invariance, full loading, full threshold, the full unique factor invariance; and all structural (latent variances and covariances) components. Additionally, there was no difference in latent mean scores across the three-time points. The psychometric and practical implications of the findings are discussed.
贝根耶鲁性成瘾量表(BYSAS;[1])是目前评估性成瘾最受欢迎的问卷之一。本研究采用验证性因素分析(CFA),并将项目得分视为有序分类,运用加权最小二乘法均值和方差调整卡方(WLSMV)提取法,对 276 名成年人(平均年龄=31.86 岁;标准差=9.94 岁;71%为男性)在两年内(每三年一次)的 BYSAS 评分进行纵向测量和结构不变性检验。总的来说,结构模型具有配置不变性、完全载荷、完全阈值、完全独特因子不变性,以及所有结构(潜在方差和协方差)成分的支持。此外,在三个时间点之间,潜在均值得分没有差异。讨论了研究结果的心理测量和实际意义。