Comparing Social Anxiety in Japanese and European Americans: Integrating Measurement Invariance and Prototype Analyses
Comparing Social Anxiety in Japanese and European Americans: Integrating Measurement Invariance and Prototype Analyses
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比较日本人和欧洲美国人的社交焦虑：整合测量不变性和原型分析
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10.31234/osf.io/fvubx
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2019
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Hanna Krieg
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Alexander Krieg;Yiyuan Xu;D. Cicero;S. Miyamoto;Hanna Krieg
目的：目前的研究在比较日裔和欧裔美国人的社交焦虑时检验了测量的不变性和典型症状。方法：研究1对163名日本人和193名欧洲裔美国人的社交恐惧症量表（SPS）和社交互动焦虑量表（SIAS）及其简表（SPS-6和SISA-6）的结构、度量和标量不变性进行了调查。研究2检查了20名日本人和20名欧洲美国人对社交焦虑原型小插图的反应，并调查了围绕生成描述的情绪效价和内容主题。结果：研究1的结果支持SPS-6和SIAS-6的部分标量不变性、SIAS的部分度量不变性和SPS的结构不变性。研究2发现，尽管两组人产生的大多数描述词都是负面属性，但日本人提到的中性属性比欧裔美国人多。两组都提到了与SPS和SIAS一致的描述词的百分比相似，但与生理焦虑相关的非不变项内容，如昏厥和生病，被欧洲裔美国人提到的频率更高，而与沟通技巧相关的单一不变项内容，如与他人融洽相处和与他人交谈困难，被日本人提到的频率更高。结论：这些发现强调了在理解和测量跨文化精神病理学时，需要整合测量不变性和文化效度的证据。
Objectives: The current studies examined measurement invariance and prototypical symptoms when comparing social anxiety between Japanese and European Americans. Methods: Study 1 investigated configural, metric, and scalar invariance for the Social Phobia Scale (SPS) and the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS), and their respective short forms (SPS-6 and SISA-6), among 163 Japanese and 193 European Americans. Study 2 examined 20 Japanese and 20 European Americans' responses to a social anxiety prototype vignette and investigated the emotional valence and content themes surrounding the generated descriptions.Results: Study 1 results supported partial scalar invariance of SPS-6 and SIAS-6, partial metric invariance for SIAS, and configural invariance for SPS. Study 2 found that although most descriptors generated by both groups were negative attributes, Japanese mentioned more neutral attributes that European Americans. Both groups mentioned similar percentages of descriptors consistent with the SPS and SIAS, but the non-invariant item content related to physiological anxiety such as fainting and becoming ill were mentioned more often by European Americans whereas the scalar invariant item content related to communication skills, such as mixing comfortably with others and difficulty talking with other people, were mentioned more often by Japanese.Conclusions: These findings highlight the need to integrate evidence of both measurement invariance and cultural validity in understanding and measurement of psychopathology across cultures.