Bifactor structural model of symptom checklists: SCL-90-R and Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) in a non-clinical community sample

• Published in: Psychiatry research Vol. 216; no. 1; pp. 146 - 154
• Main Authors: Urbán, Róbert, Kun, Bernadette, Farkas, Judit, Paksi, Borbála, Kökönyei, Gyöngyi, Unoka, Zsolt, Felvinczi, Katalin, Oláh, Attila, Demetrovics, Zsolt
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ireland Ltd 30.04.2014; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Behavioral Symptoms - diagnosis; Bifactor model; Biological and medical sciences; Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI); Checklist; Confirmatory factor analysis; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Female; Gender differences; Health Surveys; Humans; Hungary; Male; Medical sciences; Mental Disorders - diagnosis; Middle Aged; Models, Statistical; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychometrics; Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Reproducibility of Results; Sex Factors; Symptom checklist (SCL-90-R); Techniques and methods; Young Adult; Hungary; Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI); Confirmatory factor analysis; Gender differences; Bifactor model; Symptom checklist (SCL-90-R); Human; Questionnaire; Healthy subject; Brief Symptom Inventory Derogatis; Sex; Psychometrics; Revised drafting; Gender; Symptom Checklist 90; Test validation; Symptomatology; Psychological distress; Severity score; Comparative study

The Derogatis symptom checklist (SCL-90-R) and its short version, the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), are widely used instruments, despite the fact that their factor structures were not clearly confirmed. The goals of this research were to compare four measurement models of these instruments includin...