The parent version of the Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ-P) is a brief 13-item tool for the screening of depression in children from the age of 6 years. Despite the wide use of the SMFQ-P, its psychometric properties and factor structure remain understudied, with few data available for young school-aged children. The objective of this study was to examine for the first time the factorial structure and psychometric properties of the SMFQ-P in a non-clinical sample of Spanish-speaking children aged 6–8 years. Participants were 181 children whose parents completed the Spanish-adapted version of the SMFQ-P along with the parent version of other measures of anxiety and general difficulties and positive attributes. The SMFQ-P demonstrated adequate internal consistency (α = .83) and test-retest reliability over an eight-week period (ICC = .80), and good convergent and divergent validity. Factor analysis confirmed the original 13-item model, thus supporting the unidimensionality of the measure in the Spanish sample. Overall, this study provides initial empirical evidence for the utility of the SMFQ-P with Spanish-speaking children from early school ages, and extends the international support of the measure.

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在学龄儿童的非临床样本中，父母版本的短期情绪和感觉问卷 (SMFQ-P) 的西班牙语适应和心理测量特性

简短的情绪和感觉问卷 (SMFQ-P) 的父母版本是一个简短的 13 项工具，用于筛查 6 岁以上儿童的抑郁症。尽管 SMFQ-P 被广泛使用，但其心理测量特性和因素结构仍未得到充分研究，很少有可用于学龄儿童的数据。本研究的目的是首次在 6-8 岁的讲西班牙语的儿童的非临床样本中检查 SMFQ-P 的因子结构和心理测量特性。参与者是 181 名儿童，他们的父母完成了西班牙语改编版的 SMFQ-P 以及其他焦虑、一般困难和积极属性的父母版本。SMFQ-P 在八周内表现出足够的内部一致性 (α = .83) 和重测信度 (ICC = . 80），以及良好的收敛效度和发散效度。因子分析证实了最初的 13 项模型，从而支持西班牙样本中测量的单维性。总体而言，本研究为 SMFQ-P 对学龄早期讲西班牙语的儿童的效用提供了初步经验证据，并扩大了该措施的国际支持。