title: The CES-D as a Measure of Psychological Distress Among International Students: Measurement and Structural Invariance Across Gender.
abstract: Detecting psychological distress among international students can be challenging given diverse languages, cultural backgrounds, and lack of refined measurement properties of measures tailored to international students. Despite the challenges, ensuring that a psychological distress measure works effectively has considerable potential value for assessment purposes. The current study evaluates the measurement properties of a short 10-item version of Radloff's Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). Grounded in long-standing evidence on gender differences in depressive symptoms, specific attention was given to examining measurement invariance of the CES-D Short-form across women and men. Based on a large, two-cohort sample of international students ( N = 468), and through multiple analyses evaluating factor structure and measurement invariance, we derived an even briefer, seven-item single-factor form of the CES-D (CES-D Short-form International) that can be used with international students.
authors.affiliation: 1 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Hanna
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suh
authors.affiliation: 2 Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Marieke
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: van Nuenen
authors.affiliation: 2 Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Kenneth G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Rice
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001208:Asia / Q000208:ethnology; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D038622:Internationality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D017678:Sex Distribution; D015144:Southeastern United States; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: depression; gender; international students; measurement invariance; structural invariance