The German Version of the Multidimensional Acculturative Stress Inventory (MASI) for Turkish-Origin Immigrants -Measurement Invariance of Filter Questions and Validation.

ABSTRACT: The Multidimensional Acculturative Stress Inventory (MASI) is an established measure of acculturative stress for people of Mexican origin living in the United States that has been associated with mental health outcomes in this population. We translated the MASI into German and adapted it for use with Turkish-origin immigrants in Germany. The MASI includes filter questions asking if a potentially stressful event had actually occurred before reporting the stress appraisal of these situations. Measurement invariance testing has become a standard practice to evaluate questionnaire translations, however, measurement invariance of filter questions has been scarcely studied. In Study I, we evaluated measurement invariance of the filter questions between a German-based Turkish sample (N = 2

SUBMITTER: Scholaske L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8293836 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature