PMID- 37535536
OWN - NLM
STAT- Publisher
LR  - 20230803
IS  - 1942-969X (Electronic)
IS  - 1942-969X (Linking)
DP  - 2023 Aug 3
TI  - Factor structure of the Impact of Events Scale-Revised in Latin American young 
      adults.
LID - 10.1037/tra0001549 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: More than 550 million people speak Spanish and, yet, psychometric data 
      on psychological instruments in Spanish lags. Given evidence of significant 
      traumatic exposure and distress among Spanish speakers, the aim of the current 
      study was to examine the factor structure of the Impact of Events Scale-Revised 
      (IES-R), in a large sample of Spanish-speaking adults. METHOD: Participants (n = 
      725) were university students living in Latin America (M = 21.02; SD = 3.12). 
      Most were born in Mexico (77.6%) and the next largest subgroup was from Ecuador 
      (18.9%). Respondents completed the 22-item IES-R. RESULTS: The IES-R mean score 
      was 20.08 (SD = 21.34) and 26.6% of the sample met the cutoff score for 
      clinically significant symptoms. Regarding factor structure, eight different 
      factor structures that have demonstrated a good fit in the extant literature were 
      examined. The one-factor model demonstrated an acceptable fit, chi(2)(209) = 839.13, 
      p < .0001; root-mean-square error (RMSEA) = 0.06, 95% confidence interval (CI) 
      [0.06, 0.07]; comparative fit index (CFI) = 0.91, Tucker-Lewis index (TLI) = 
      0.90. The two-factor model demonstrated good fit, chi(2)(208) = 746.70, p < .0001; 
      RMSEA = 0.06, 95% CI [0.05, 0.06]; CFI = 0.92, TLI = 0.91, and nested model 
      comparisons of the two-factor and one-factor models using the chi-square 
      difference test supported the two-factor model. CONCLUSIONS: The most 
      parsimonious of the multifactor models, a two-factor model with Avoidance 
      symptoms as one factor and Intrusions and Hyperarousal combined into a second may 
      be of greatest use for this particular version of the IES-R. The current research 
      demonstrates strong psychometric support for Intrusion/Hyperarousal and Avoidance 
      subscales when measuring traumatic stress in Spanish speakers and underscores the 
      need for culturally and contextually sensitive assessment in this population, in 
      which posttraumatic stress is prevalent. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, 
      all rights reserved).
FAU - Venta, Amanda
AU  - Venta A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1641-123X
AD  - Department of Psychology, University of Houston.
FAU - Richardson, Angela
AU  - Richardson A
AD  - Department of Psychology, University of Houston.
FAU - Gallagher, Matthew W
AU  - Gallagher MW
AD  - Department of Psychology, University of Houston.
FAU - Mercado, Alfonso
AU  - Mercado A
AD  - Department of Psychological Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
FAU - Colunga-Rodriguez, Cecilia
AU  - Colunga-Rodriguez C
AD  - Departamento de Salud Publica, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Universidad 
      de Guadalajara.
FAU - Gonzalez, Mario Angel
AU  - Gonzalez MA
AD  - Division de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara.
FAU - Picazo, Gabriel Davalos
AU  - Picazo GD
AD  - Universidad CEU-San Pablo.
LA  - eng
GR  - National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230803
PL  - United States
TA  - Psychol Trauma
JT  - Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy
JID - 101495376
SB  - IM
EDAT- 2023/08/03 19:14
MHDA- 2023/08/03 19:14
CRDT- 2023/08/03 13:33
PHST- 2023/08/03 19:14 [medline]
PHST- 2023/08/03 19:14 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/08/03 13:33 [entrez]
AID - 2023-96480-001 [pii]
AID - 10.1037/tra0001549 [doi]
PST - aheadofprint
SO  - Psychol Trauma. 2023 Aug 3. doi: 10.1037/tra0001549.