The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12): Reliability,external validity and factor structure in the Spanish population
| Autor: | Sánchez López, María Pilar, Dresch, Virginia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| Zdroj: | E-Prints Complutense. Archivo Institucional de la UCM instname E-Prints Complutense: Archivo Institucional de la UCM Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study was to analyze the internal consistency and the external and structure validity of the 12-Item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) in the Spanish general population. A stratified sample of 1001 subjects, ages between 25 and 65 years, taken from the general Spanish population was employed. The GHQ-12 and the Inventory of Situations and Responses of Anxiety-ISRA were administered. A Cronbach’s alpha of .76 (Standardized Alpha: .78) and a 3-factor structure (with oblique rotation and maximum likelihood procedure) were obtained. External validity of Factor I (Successful Coping) with the ISRA is very robust (.82; Factor II, .70; Factor III, .75). The GHQ-12 shows adequate reliability and validity in the Spanish population. Therefore, the GHQ-12 can be used with efficacy to assess people’s overall psychological well-being and to detect non-psychotic psychiatric problems. Additionally, our results confirm that the GHQ-12 can best be thought of as a multidimensional scale that assesses several distinct aspects of distress, rather than just a unitary screening measure. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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