Title
Structural analysis of cardiff anomalous perceptions scale (CAPS) in Colombian University Students
Other title
Análisis estructural de la Cardiff Anomalous Perceptions Scale (CAPS) en universitarios colombianos
Date Issued
01 January 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Ministerio de Salud Publica
Abstract
Introduction: Cardiff Anomalous Perceptions Scale (CAPS) is a psychiatric test devised to capture anomalous perceptions looking at it from the hypothesis that psychotic experiences are distributed in the general population, although with less intensity and frequency than in the clinical population Objective: Contrast the English factorial model (M1), Spanish (M2), and Colombian (M3) of CAPS in Colombian university students. Methods: Instrumental investigation in which 261 Colombian university students were participants. CAPS was applied in the classrooms. Descriptive analysis of items was carried out, and the methodology of Models of Structural Equations about matrixes of polycoric correlations was used to assess the three models, and prove its adjustment to data. Results: The adjustment of the models was not satisfactory for M1 and M2, although for M3 it had adequate adjustment index. It was found evidences of convergent validity of the model, and the reliability assessed with McDonald's coefficient ω was acceptable. Conclusions: The factorial solution proposed by M3 seems robust, at least for Colombian samples.
Volume
13
Issue
3
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Psiquiatría
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85011114141
Source
Revista del Hospital Psiquiatrico de la Habana
ISSN of the container
01387103
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