Worldwide, the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) has become the most widely used measure of life satisfaction. Recently, an authorized Vietnamese-language version has been introduced. Using a convenience sample comprising community volunteers from Ho Chi Minh City (N = 1073), confirmatory support was found for the cross-national constancy of the one-dimensional structure underlying the SWLS. Corrected item–total polyserial correlations and Omega coefficient were satisfactory. Using multi-group confirmatory factor analysis, configural, metric, and scalar invariance of the SWLS factorial structure were tested by gender, age, marital status, income, and educational level. Strong evidence of scalar invariance was found for gender and education, on which relevant subgroups did not differ in terms of latent means. Partial scalar invariance was found for marital status (item 4 and 5) and income (item 4). Being involved in an intimate relationship or having a higher income were associated with higher latent means. Scalar invariance in relation to age was very poor. Accordingly, caution must be exerted when comparing age groups. A high SWLS score was predictive of good self-rated health. Implications of the findings are briefly discussed.

Este trabalho apresenta a adaptação linguística para português da Escala de Comportamento Interpessoal - versão reduzida, e a avaliação das suas características psicométricas, em uma amostra de adolescentes tardios (dos 16 aos 21 anos; N = 872). Foi encontrada uma organização interna em quatro dimensões e uma medida geral para os dois componentes avaliados: desconforto ao ser assertivo e frequência de prática de comportamento assertivo. Todas as medidas obtiveram valores aceitáveis de consistência interna e níveis moderados de validade por relação com outras variáveis, face à versão reduzida da Escala de Assertividade de Rathus. Algumas diferenças por sexo foram observadas. Este instrumento mostrou-se útil para ser empregado na avaliação e investigação em psicologia.

Objective: Routine outcome monitoring (ROM) is applied in many physical and mental health treatments. The treatment course is monitored with patient reported outcome measures (PROMs). A potential problem with PROM is response burden. This can be decreased by presenting such measures with less and better selected items. The SCL‐90‐R is an often used PROM for psychotherapies and a number of very short forms have been developed; the SCL‐5, SCL‐8, SCL‐9 and SCL‐10. This study aims to develop a new very short form, the symptom checklist 3 out of 7 (SCL‐3/7) and to evaluate the effectiveness of these PROM with the precision relative to the complete SCL‐90‐R score.Methods: Item Response Theory analysis was applied to select the 7 best discriminating items, evenly distributed over the latent trait. A routing serves that patients only need to administer 3 items.Results: In a sample of 15,055 cases, the relative precisions of the SCL‐3/7 were best for outpatients (122.7%), day care patients (111.8%) and inpatients (108.3). The SCL‐5 was best for juvenile patients (110.0%), and the SCL‐9 was best for addicted patients (107.2%).Conclusion: The SCL‐3/7 decreases patient burden in ROM and has a better precision in adult therapies than other SCL‐90 short forms.

Notwithstanding its growing popularity and advantages over exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, no studies have as yet employed psychometric network analysis with clinical subjects for attempting to resolve the dilemma about the dimensional structure of one of the most widely employed self-report measures of psychopathology: the Symptom Checklist-90-R [SCL-90-R]. This is the first study to do so. Clique Percolation, a network community detection algorithm that can accomodate overlapping nodes (symptoms), was applied to SCL-90-R self-ratings of a combined psychiatric patient and community sample ( n = 2,069). Thirteen replicable and reliable primary communities (dimensions) that also differentiated the patient from the community sample in the predicted direction were yielded: Dysphoria , Interpersonal Sensitivity , Negative Self-Evaluation , Cognitive-Performance Deficits , Anxiety-Fear , Agoraphobia , Hostility , Social Anxiety , Somatic Anxiety , Cardiopulmonary Symptoms , Mistrust , Thought-Related Delusions , and Existential Distress . Visual inspection of the conditional associations between these 13 primary communities suggested the possibility of three higher-order dimensions: Panic with agoraphobia, Depression, and Interpersonal difficulties. The primary dimensions of Hostility and Thought-Related Delusions were the two least central dimensions in this visual alignment. Thirteen primary symptom dimensions are now available for further research on measurement invariance across relevant subject parameters (e.g., gender, age, clinical status) and for obtaining data on symptom status at initial patient interview and on patient reported outcome (to monitor treatment progress). Tentatively, in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology [HiTOP], Hostility could be located in the Antagonistic Disinhibited Spectrum and Thought-Related Delusions in the Thought Disorder Spectrum. The remaining 11 primary dimensions could all be allocated to the HiTOP Internalizing Spectrum.