Psychometric properties of the Maladjustment Inventory in a Spanish clinical and student sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The various systems of diagnosis and classification of mental disorders underline the need to evaluate the interference caused by the different disorders in a person's daily life. The Maladjustment Inventory (MI) evaluates the impairment in the individual's functioning in a brief and self-applied way, through six items. The objective of this research was to explore the psychometric properties of the MI scores through two studies, one with a Spanish clinical sample (Study 1) and another with a Spanish university students' sample (Study 2).

Methods

The total sample was made up of 928 participants (81.1% women, n = 495 clinical sample). Descriptive analyses, exploration of internal structure and reliability, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, relationship

SUBMITTER: Osma J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11568692 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature