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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22953| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Psychometric properties of the Somatic Symptom Scale 8 (SSS-8) in a representative sample of German adolescents |
| Authors: | Kliem, Sören Krieg, Yvonne Beller, Johannes Brähler, Elmar Baier, Dirk |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2021.110593 10.21256/zhaw-22953 |
| Published in: | Journal of Psychosomatic Research |
| Volume(Issue): | 149 |
| Issue: | 110593 |
| Issue Date: | 2-Aug-2021 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0022-3999 1879-1360 |
| Language: | English |
| Subject (DDC): | 616: Internal medicine and diseases |
| Abstract: | Objective: The psychometric properties of the Somatic Symptom Scale 8 (SSS-8) have been investigated in different studies. However, there is no study examining its psychometric properties on representative data of adolescents. The study at hand will present results from a large representative sample of German adolescents (13 to 18 years). Methods: The following analyses draw on cross-sectional data from German ninth-grade students collected in 2015. Altogether, 10,638 individuals were surveyed with a return rate of 68.5% as part of a periodic representative survey in the German federal state of Lower Saxony. Results: For the SSS-8, coefficient omega for the full sample was ω = 0.90, and ω = 0.77 and 0.79 for males and females, respectively. In addition, a convergent validity was determined with the Patient Health Questionnaire 2 (PHQ-2), Generalized Anxiety Disorder 2 (GAD-2), and the brief form of Perceived Social Support Questionnaire (FSozU-K6). Based on a confirmatory factor analysis and measurement invariance analysis (for gender and migration background), the initially determined factor structure by Gierk et al. of the SSS-8 could be confirmed. Conclusion: The results support the reliability and validity of the SSS-8 for use with adolescents. The use of the SSS-8 seems to be meaningful within different frameworks, especially when, due to a lack of time or for reasons of cost, no face-to-face interviews can be conducted. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/22953 |
| Fulltext version: | Accepted version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: Attribution - Non commercial - No derivatives 4.0 International |
| Restricted until: | 2022-08-03 |
| Departement: | Social Work |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Delinquency and Crime Prevention (IDK) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Soziale Arbeit |
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