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Validation of the Suicide Resilience Inventory‐25 with A merican and C hinese College Students
Author(s) -
Fang Qijuan,
Freedenthal Stacey,
Osman Augustine
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/sltb.12108
Subject(s) - measurement invariance , sample (material) , scale (ratio) , internal consistency , psychology , clinical psychology , demography , psychological resilience , china , resilience (materials science) , reliability (semiconductor) , psychometrics , statistics , social psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , geography , mathematics , structural equation modeling , cartography , physics , sociology , archaeology , thermodynamics , power (physics) , quantum mechanics
This study is the first to evaluate evidence for measurement invariance and the psychometric properties of the S uicide R esilience I nventory‐25 ( SRI ‐25; Osman et al., [Osman, A., 2004]) in college‐age samples in both the United States and China. We found strong support for full measurement invariance of the three‐factor structure of the SRI ‐25 in the U . S . (113 men and 238 women) and C hinese (121 men and 205 women) samples. In addition, we found that the U . S . sample scored significantly higher than the Chinese sample on all the individual scale scores. Composite scale reliability estimates ranged from moderate (ρ = .83) to high (ρ = .93) across the groups. Although not an aim of the current study, we examined estimates of internal consistency of the SRI ‐25 scales for men and women within each sample. Differential correlates of the SRI ‐25 scales were explored further for each sample. These results provide support for the use of the SRI ‐25 in U . S . and C hinese student samples.