Exploratory factor analysis and psychometric properties of the General Health Questionnaire in Spanish adolescents

Psychological Reports

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 120-126

  Lopez Castedo A ^a   Dominguez J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPAIN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE);

ADOLESCENT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERSONALITY TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPAIN; TRANSLATING;

EID: 85047686430     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/06.08.13.PR0.107.4.120-126     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. ADERIBIGBE, Y. A., RILEY, W., LEWIN, T., & GUREJE, O. (1996) Factor structure of the 28-item General Health Questionnaire in a sample of antenatal women. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 26, 263-269.
2. COMREY, A. L. (1973) A first course in factor analysis. New York: Academic Press.
3. GOLDBERG, D. P. (1972) The detection of psychiatric illness by questionnaire. London: Oxford Univer. Press.
4. GOLDBERG, D. P. (1978) Manual of the General Health Questionnaire. Oxford, UK: NFER-Nelson.
5. GOLDBERG, D. P., GATER, R., SARTORIUS, N., USTUN, T. B., PICCINELLI, M., GUREJE, O., & RUTTER, C. (1997) The validity of two versions of the GHQ in the WHO study of mental illness in general health care. Psychological Medicine, 27, 191-197.
6. GOLDBERG, D. P., & HILLIER, V. F. (1979) A scaled version of the General Health Questionnaire. Psychological Medicine, 9, 139-145.
7. GOLDBERG, D. P., & WILLIAMS, P. (1988) A user's guide to the General Health Questionnaire. Windsor, UK: NFER-Nelson.
8. IWATA, N., & SAITO, K. (1992) The factor structure of the 28-item General Health Questionnaire when used in Japanese early adolescents and adult employees: age and cross-cultural comparisons. European Archives of Psychiatry, 242, 172-178.
9. LOBO, A., & MUÑOZ, P. E. (1996) Questionnaire de Health General GHQ (General Health Questionnaire): guía para el usuario de las distintas versiones en lengua española validadas. Barcelona, Spain: Masson.
10. MCDOWELL, I., & NEWELL, C. (1987) A guide to rating scales and questionnaires. New York: Oxford Univer. Press.
11. NAGATA, K., OKUBE, H., MOJI, K., & TAKEMOTO, T. (1993) Difference of the 28-item General Health Questionnaire scores between Japanese high school and university students. Japanese Journal of Psychiatry and Neurology, 47, 575-583.
12. NUNNALLY, J. C., & BERNSTEIN, I. H. (1994) Psychometric theory. New York: McGraw-Hill.
13. RIAZ, H., & REZA, H. (1998) The evaluation of an Urdu version of the GHQ-28. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 97, 427-432.
14. SANDERMAN, R., & STEWART, R. (1990) The assessment of psychological distress: psychometric properties of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). International Journal of Health Sciences, 1, 195-202.
15. STUART, G. W., KLIMIDIS, S., MINAS, I. H., & TUNCER, C. (1993) The factor structure of the Turkish version of the General Health Questionnaire. Internaltional Journal of Social Psychiatry, 39, 272-284.
16. TAIT, R. J., HULSE, G. K., & ROBERTSON, S. I. (2002) A review of the validity of the General Health Questionnaire in adolescent populations. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 36, 550-557.
17. WERNEKE, U., GOLDBERG, D. P., YALCIN, Y., & USTUN, B. T. (2000) The stability of the factor structure of the General Health Questionnaire. Psychological Medicine, 30, 823-829.
18. WEYERER, S., ELTON, S., DIALLINA, M., & FICHTER, M. M. (1986) The principal component structure of the General Health Questionnaire among Greek and Turkish adolescents. European Archives of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences, 77, 124-132.