Abstract

The Schwartz Outcome Scale-10 is a 10-item measure that has proven utility for assessing well-being and mental health and measuring change over time. Although there is a Spanish translation of the measure created in the United States for the Latino population, its acceptability and psychometric properties have not been studied in unilingual Spanish speakers, nor outside the United States. The aim of the present study is to explore these properties in larger samples, clinical and non-clinical, from Latin America adding convergent validity checking and exploration of effects of gender and age on scores. A qualitative study was conducted with 11 participants to test for dialect/language issues, then a psychometric exploration of data from 886 participants in a non-clinical sample and 172 in a clinical sample. The results showed good psychometric characteristics and suggest that the SOS-10-E can be used in Latin America. A cutoff of 42.51 differentiates clinical scores from non-clinical. Future studies are needed to explore sensitivity to change and check replication in other Spanish speaking populations.

摘要

Schwartz Outcome Scale-10 是一个包含 10 项的衡量标准，已被证明可用于评估幸福感和心理健康以及衡量随时间的变化。尽管在美国为拉丁裔人口创建了该措施的西班牙语翻译，但尚未在讲西班牙语的单语者中研究其可接受性和心理测量特性，也未在美国以外进行研究。本研究的目的是在来自拉丁美洲的更大样本、临床和非临床样本中探索这些特性，增加收敛效度检查和探索性别和年龄对分数的影响。对 11 名参与者进行了一项定性研究，以测试方言/语言问题，然后对来自非临床样本中的 886 名参与者和临床样本中的 172 名参与者的数据进行心理测量探索。结果显示出良好的心理测量特征，并表明 SOS-10-E 可用于拉丁美洲。42.51 的临界值将临床评分与非临床评分区分开来。未来的研究需要探索对变化的敏感性并检查其他讲西班牙语的人群的复制。