Factor structure of the Impact of Events Scale-Revised in Latin American young adults.
Amanda C VentaAngela RichardsonMatthew W GallagherAlfonso MercadoCecilia Colunga-RodriguezMario Angel GonzalezGabriel Dávalos PicazoPublished in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2023)
The most parsimonious of the multifactor models, a two-factor model with Avoidance symptoms as one factor and Intrusions and Hyperarousal combined into a second may be of greatest use for this particular version of the IES-R. The current research demonstrates strong psychometric support for Intrusion/Hyperarousal and Avoidance subscales when measuring traumatic stress in Spanish speakers and underscores the need for culturally and contextually sensitive assessment in this population, in which posttraumatic stress is prevalent. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).