The Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire from adolescence to emerging adulthood: Measurement invariance across time and sex.
The Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire from adolescence to emerging adulthood: Measurement invariance across time and sex.
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从青春期到成年初期的短期情绪和情感问卷：跨时间和性别的测量不变性。
作者：
Pascal Schlechter;P. Wilkinson;T. Ford;S. Neufeld
青春期到成年期是抑郁症状发作的关键时期。因此，了解这一时期的症状变化具有重要的临床意义。然而，这种理解是基于准确测量不同时间和性别的抑郁症状的前提，通常未经应用研究的检验。本研究探讨了纵向和性别测量不变性（MI）的简短的情绪和感觉问卷（SMFQ），广泛使用的一维13项自我报告的抑郁症状的措施。我们采用了雅芳父母和儿童纵向研究的10波，这是一项在英格兰西南部进行的基于人群的研究（N = 7，364;年龄11-26岁）。SMFQ表现出随着年龄的增长而增加的一致性：在包括11岁和13岁的模型中，所有指数都不支持标量纵向MI，但从14-26岁建立了严格的MI。在每个波，至少部分严格MI跨性别建立。等权和分模型的拟合度可接受，信度较好，与差权模型的信度相当。总分的外部效度也与因子分相当。因此，在许多情况下，总分似乎是一个合适的、实用的选择。总体而言，研究结果支持使用SMFQ评估从青春期到成年期的抑郁症状变化，特别是14-26岁。在比较11-13岁与17岁以上的结构时，需要谨慎，因为测量模型不是完全不变的。这项研究为SMFQ在不同时间和性别的适用性的流行病学和临床研究提供了信息。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2023阿帕，保留所有权利）。
Adolescence to emerging adulthood is a critical period for the onset of depressive symptoms. Understanding symptom change during this period is thus of great clinical relevance. This understanding is, however, based on the premise of the accurate measurement of depressive symptoms across time and sex, typically untested in applied research. The present study investigated longitudinal and sex measurement invariance (MI) of the Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ), a widely used unidimensional 13-item measure of self-reported depressive symptoms. We employed 10 waves of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a population-based study in South-West England (N = 7,364; ages 11-26). The SMFQ exhibited increasing consistency with age: Scalar longitudinal MI was not supported by all indices in models that included ages 11 and 13, but strict MI was established from ages 14-26. At each wave, at least partial strict MI across sex was established. Sum score models with equal weightings had acceptable fit, and good reliability which was equivalent to reliability using differential weightings. External validity for sum scores was also comparable to factor scores. Thus, sum scores seem an appropriate, practical choice in many settings. Overall, findings support the use of SMFQ in assessing change in depressive symptoms from adolescence into emerging adulthood, specifically ages 14-26. Some caution is necessary when comparing the construct at ages 11-13 with ages greater than 17, when measurement models were not fully invariant. This research informs epidemiological and clinical studies on the applicability of the SMFQ across time and sex. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).