Dimensional structure and measurement invariance of the schizotypal personality questionnaire - Brief revised (SPQ-BR) scores across American and Spanish samples
- Fonseca-Pedrero, E. 125
- Cohen, A. 3
- Ortuño-Sierra, J. 2
- de Álbeniz, A.P. 2
- Muñiz, J. 14
- 1 Center for Biomedical Research in the Mental Health Network (CIBERSAM), Oviedo, Spain
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Universidad de La Rioja
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Louisiana State University
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Universidad de Oviedo
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- 5 Oviedo, Spain
ISSN: 0885-579X
Año de publicación: 2017
Volumen: 31
Número: 4
Páginas: 522-541
Tipo: Artículo
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Resumen
The main goal of the present study was to test the measurement equivalence of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire-Brief Revised (SPQBR) scores in a large sample of Spanish and American non-clinical young adults. The sample was made up of 5,625 young adults (M = 19.65 years; SD = 2.53; 38.5% males). Study of the internal structure, using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), revealed that SPQ-BR items were grouped in a theoretical internal structure of nine first-order factors. Moreover, three or four second-order factor and bifactor models showed adequate goodnessof-fit indices. Multigroup CFA showed that the nine lower-order factor models of the SPQ-BR had configural and weak measurement invariance and partial strong measurement invariance across country. The reliability of the SPQ-BR scores, estimated with omega, ranged from 0.67 to 0.91. Using the item response theory framework, the SPQ-BR provides more accurate information at the medium and high end of the latent trait. Statistically significant differences were found in the raw scores of the SPQ-BR subscales and dimensions across samples. The American group scored higher than the Spanish group in all SPQ-BR domains except Ideas of Reference and Suspiciousness. The finding of comparable factor structure in cross-cultural samples would lend further support to the continuum model of psychosis spectrum disorders. In addition, these results provide new information about the factor structure of schizotypal traits and support the validity and utility of this measure in cross-cultural research. © 2017 The Guilford Press.