Open AccessPsychometric Properties of the General Anxiety Disorders-7 Scale Using Categorical Data Methods: A Study in a Sample of University Attending Ethiopian Young Adults
Author(s) -
Dilshad Manzar,
Ahmad H. Alghadir,
Shahnawaz Anwer,
Mazen Alqahtani,
Mohammed Salahuddin,
H.A. Addo,
Wakuma Wakene Jifar,
Nofaa Alasmee
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s295912
Subject(s) - medicine , categorical variable , goodness of fit , statistics , clinical psychology , anxiety , mathematics , psychiatry
Few studies have investigated the psychometric validation of the General Anxiety Disorders-7 Scale (GAD-7) using appropriate data assumptions. This study examined the reliability, factorial validity, divergent validity, and item analysis of the GAD-7 using categorical data methods in a sample of Ethiopian young adults.