The SPECTRA: Indices of Psychopathology is a broadband assessment inventory compatible with contemporary hierarchical models of psychopathology (internalizing, externalizing, reality impairing dimensions and global psychopathology factor). This study explored the SPECTRA's construct validity using a wide range of life event (extra-test) variables in a clinical sample. The life event variables included the following: education level, school failure, childhood adversity, suicide attempts, psychiatric hospitalizations, depression, psychotic symptoms, self-injury, substance abuse, arrests, physical violence, marital status, employment status and current medications. Results showed that all SPECTRA clinical scales had significant life event correlations. For the higher-order Spectra scales, the global index of psychopathology had the greatest number and range of life event correlations. Correlations for the externalizing and reality impairing Spectra scales provided solid validity evidence, while correlations for the internalizing Spectra scale were more diffuse. These findings provide the first non-test-based evidence of construct validity for the SPECTRA.

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SPECTRA 的外部相关性：临床样本中的精神病理学指数 (SPECTRA)

该SPECTRA：精神病理学的指标是宽带评估库存与精神病理学的当代层次模型（内化，外化，现实有损尺寸和全球精神病理学因素）兼容。本研究使用临床样本中的范围广泛的生活事件（额外测试）变量探索了SPECTRA的结构效度。生活事件变量包括以下内容：教育水平、学业失败、童年逆境、自杀未遂、精神病住院、抑郁、精神病症状、自伤、药物滥用、逮捕、身体暴力、婚姻状况、就业状况和当前药物治疗。结果表明，所有的SPECTRA临床量表具有显着的生活事件相关性。对于高阶光谱量表，精神病理学的全球指数具有最大数量和范围的生活事件相关性。外化和现实损害光谱量表的相关性提供了可靠的有效性证据，而内化光谱量表的相关性则更为分散。这些发现为SPECTRA提供了第一个非基于测试的结构有效性证据。