title: The Hispanic Stress Inventory--Adolescent Version: a culturally informed psychosocial assessment.
abstract: A 2-phase study was conducted to develop a culturally informed measure of psychosocial stress for adolescents: the Hispanic Stress Inventory--Adolescent Version (HSI-A). Phase 1 involved item development through the collection of open-ended focus group interview data (n = 170) from a heterogeneous sample of Hispanic youths residing in the southwest and northeast United States. In Phase 2, we examined the psychometric properties of the HSI-A (n = 1,651), which involved the use of factor analytic procedures to determine the underlying scale structure of the HSI-A for foreign-born and U.S.-born participants in an aggregated analytic approach. An 8-factor solution was established, with factors that include Family Economic Stress, Acculturation-Gap Stress, Culture and Educational Stress, Immigration-Related Stress, Discrimination Stress, Family Immigration Stress, Community and Gang-Related Stress, and Family and Drug-Related Stress. Concurrent, related validity estimates were calculated to determine relations between HSI-A and other measures of child psychopathology and behavioral and emotional disturbances. HSI-A total stress appraisal scores were significantly correlated with both the Children's Depression Inventory and the Youth Self Report (p < .001). Reliability estimates for the HSI-A were conducted, and they yielded high reliability coefficients for most factor subscales, with the HSI-A total stress appraisal score reliability alpha at .92.
authors.affiliation: Behavioral Assessment, Inc., Los Angeles, CA 90211, USA. bassessment@aol.com
authors.forename: Richard C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Cervantes
authors.forename: Dennis G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Córdova
authors.forename: Lucy E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Napper
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000592:standards; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult