title: A brief measure of psychological health and well-being: initial validation of the schwartz outcome scale for an adolescent inpatient sample.
abstract: The present study evaluated whether the Schwartz Outcome Scale-10 (SOS-10), a well-validated self-report measure of psychological health and well-being in the adult population, would tap this construct similarly in an adolescent inpatient sample. This study looked to compared scores on the SOS-10 with the Youth Self-Report (YSR) and the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP), two well-validated self-report measures of behavioral problems and interpersonal distress. A total of 154 adolescent psychiatric inpatients completed the SOS-10, YSR self-report, and the IIP-32 at or within a day of admission to the inpatient unit. The results showed that the SOS-10 was negatively related to the subscales of the YSR and the scales of the IIP-32. Although just the first step in the validation of this measure for the adolescent inpatient population, the SOS-10 shows promise as a measure of psychological health and well-being and, possibly, as a brief outcome measure.
authors: Von Tauber Institute for Global Psychiatry, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, NY, USA. Ghag541@aol.com
authors: Greg
authors: G
authors: Haggerty
authors: Dustin
authors: D
authors: Kahoud
authors: Eric
authors: E
authors: Walsh
authors: Nicholas
authors: N
authors: Forlenza
authors: Zain
authors: Z
authors: Ahmed
authors: Keith
authors: K
authors: Ditkowsky
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000367:Age Factors; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results