The Africultural Coping Systems Inventory (ACSI) assesses African Americans’ culturally relevant stress coping strategies. Although its factor structure, reliability, and validity of the scores have been examined across ethnic groups of African descent, psychometric properties have not been investigated in an African American clinical sample. Thus, it is unclear if the ACSI is useful for research with African Americans with distress. To assess the ACSI’s psychometrics, we used data from 193 low-income African American women who in the past year encountered interpersonal trauma and attempted suicide. We tested four models: one-factor, four-factor, four-factor hierarchical, and bifactor. None of the models were optimal, suggesting possible revisions to ACSI items. Yet the bifactor model provided a better fit than other models with items loading onto a general factor and onto specific factors. Internal consistency of the scores was above the recommended criterion (i.e., .70), and the ACSI general factor was related to depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation (but not alcohol abuse), providing some support for its concurrent validity. Future directions, limitations, and clinical-counseling implications are discussed.

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非洲应对系统量表：非裔美国女性临床样本中的心理测量学

非洲文化应对系统量表 (ACSI) 评估非裔美国人的文化相关压力应对策略。尽管已经在非洲血统的种族群体中检查了评分的因子结构、可靠性和有效性，但尚未在非裔美国人的临床样本中研究心理测量特性。因此，尚不清楚 ACSI 是否可用于对处于困境中的非裔美国人进行研究。为了评估 ACSI 的心理测量学，我们使用了 193 名低收入非洲裔美国女性的数据，这些女性在过去一年中遭遇人际创伤并试图自杀。我们测试了四种模型：单因素、四因素、四因素分层和双因素。没有一个模型是最佳的，这表明可能对 ACSI 项目进行了修订。然而，双因子模型提供了比其他模型更好的拟合，将项目加载到一般因素和特定因素上。分数的内部一致性高于推荐标准（即 .70），ACSI 一般因素与抑郁症状、自杀意念（但与酗酒无关）相关，为其同时效度提供了一些支持。讨论了未来的方向、局限性和临床咨询的影响。