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Testing the Cross-Ethnic Construct Validity of the Brief Symptom Inventory

University of Southern California

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hoe{at}usc.edu.

	Abstract

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to examine the cross-ethnic construct validity of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI). Method: The sample consisted of 1,166 individuals diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness who were receiving treatment in community-based mental health programs. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis was used to test measurement invariance of the BSI’s second-order factor model across three ethnic groups (African Americans, Caucasians, and Latinos). Results: The data supported the configural invariance of the BSI’s second-order factor model as well as the full metric invariance and the partial metric invariance. Conclusions: The present study presented substantial empirical evidence for the construct validity of the BSI’s second-order factor model across the three ethnic groups.

First published on April 29, 2008, doi:10.1177/1049731508317285

Research on Social Work Practice 2009;19:93.

A more recent version of this article appeared on January 1, 2009


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