Open AccessThe construct validity of the client questionnaire of the Wisconsin Quality of Life Index – a cross‐validation study
Author(s) -
Caron Jean,
Corbière Marc,
Mercier Céline,
Diaz Pablo,
Ricard Nicole,
Lesage Alain
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
international journal of methods in psychiatric research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.275
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1557-0657
pISSN - 1049-8931
DOI - 10.1002/mpr.149
Subject(s) - varimax rotation , psychology , construct validity , scale (ratio) , quality of life (healthcare) , confirmatory factor analysis , population , mental health , gerontology , index (typography) , exploratory factor analysis , quality (philosophy) , sample (material) , applied psychology , clinical psychology , cronbach's alpha , psychometrics , statistics , medicine , environmental health , psychiatry , mathematics , structural equation modeling , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , quantum mechanics , chemistry , chromatography , physics , psychotherapist , world wide web
The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index (W‐QLI, Becker, Diamond and Sainfort, 1993) consists of eight scales: satisfaction with life domains, occupational activities, symptoms, physical health, social relations/support, finances, psychological wellbeing, and activities of daily living. The W‐QLI has been modified to fit the characteristics of the Canadian population, the universal Canadian health system, and community and social services in Canada and the modified form was named CaW‐QLI (Diaz, Mercier, Hachey, Caron, and Boyer, 1999). This study will verify the empirical basis of these theoretical dimensions by applying a cross‐validation procedure on two samples, most of whose subjects have a serious mental illness. Confirmatory factor analyses and exploratory factor analyses using the principal component extraction technique with varimax rotation were applied. With the exception of the occupational activities domain, the remaining scales were correctly identified by the factor analyses on each sample. The occupational activities scale should be developed by additional items for representing this scale, which is too brief, and two other items should be revised in order to improve the quality of the instrument. Copyright © 2003 Whurr Publishers Ltd.