Measuring hope: psychometric properties of the children’s Hope Scale among South Sudanese refugee children

We investigated the psychometric properties of the Children’s Hope Scale among a sample of 1,118 South Sudanese refugee children (570 girls, 548 boys) aged 9 to 14 years displaced in Uganda. We assessed the underlying factor structure and model fit through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyse...

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Autores principales: Metzler, Janna, Zhang, Yuan, Saw, Terry, Leu, Cheng-Shiun, Landers, Cassie
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10435397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35389148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-022-01327-6
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author Metzler, Janna
Zhang, Yuan
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description We investigated the psychometric properties of the Children’s Hope Scale among a sample of 1,118 South Sudanese refugee children (570 girls, 548 boys) aged 9 to 14 years displaced in Uganda. We assessed the underlying factor structure and model fit through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and measurement invariance by sex and developmental stage. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed good fit for a one-factor model with the error terms of items 1 and 3 and items 4 and 6 allowed to covary. There was no evidence of differential item functioning by group. Evidence from this study supports the use of a unidimensional model of hopefulness across groups and signifies the importance of confirming these properties for measures used to evaluate humanitarian interventions.
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spelling pubmed-104353972023-08-19 Measuring hope: psychometric properties of the children’s Hope Scale among South Sudanese refugee children Metzler, Janna Zhang, Yuan Saw, Terry Leu, Cheng-Shiun Landers, Cassie Child Psychiatry Hum Dev Original Article We investigated the psychometric properties of the Children’s Hope Scale among a sample of 1,118 South Sudanese refugee children (570 girls, 548 boys) aged 9 to 14 years displaced in Uganda. We assessed the underlying factor structure and model fit through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and measurement invariance by sex and developmental stage. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed good fit for a one-factor model with the error terms of items 1 and 3 and items 4 and 6 allowed to covary. There was no evidence of differential item functioning by group. Evidence from this study supports the use of a unidimensional model of hopefulness across groups and signifies the importance of confirming these properties for measures used to evaluate humanitarian interventions. Springer US 2022-04-07 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10435397/ /pubmed/35389148 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-022-01327-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title_short Measuring hope: psychometric properties of the children’s Hope Scale among South Sudanese refugee children
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10435397/
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