Cross-Cultural Considerations for Adapting Valid Psychoeducational Assessments

Waschl, Nicolette; Chen, Mo

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-7405-1_7

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“…From a psychometric perspective, the situation looks dire. Studies on social cognition with US-American and European samples rarely report psychometric information (for a review, see Beaudoin et al, 2020), and the picture further deteriorates when we look at cross-cultural social cognition tasks (Bourdage et al, 2023;Hajdúk et al, 2020;Waschl & Chen, 2022). Thus, it is already challenging to find reliable and valid tasks that have measurement sensitivity to detect individual differences within one community, let alone tasks that do so across different communities.…”

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“…The approaches that researchers can take to collect cross-cultural data lie on a continuum: the decision for a specific method partly depends on whether researchers aim to increase the depth (culture specificity) or breadth (standardization across multiple communities) of their work (Amir & McAuliffe, 2020). At one extreme, researchers translate the psychological construct into a separate design or task for each community (termed "assembly"; He and Vijver (2012), Waschl and Chen (2022)). While this approach allows greater flexibility and sensitivity to cultural differences, it might not be feasible to study a multitude of communities as it becomes too demanding and time-consuming.…”

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“…At the other extreme, researchers use the same standardized procedure across diverse communities, potentially providing a simple translation or modification of stimuli to ensure they are culturally appropriate (termed "adoption" and "adaptation", respectively; Waschl & Chen (2022)). This approach is less sensitive to each community's unique characteristics but renders quantitative comparisons of data more feasible.…”

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Measuring variation in gaze following across communities, ages, and individuals — a showcase of the TANGO–CC

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Cross-cultural studies are crucial for investigating the cultural variability and universality of cognitive developmental processes. However, cross-cultural assessment tools in cognition across languages and communities are limited. This paper describes a gaze following task designed to measure basic social cognition across individuals, ages, and communities (TANGO–CC). The task was developed and psychometrically assessed in one cultural setting and, with input of local collaborators, adapted for cross-cultural data collection. Minimal language demands and the web-app implementation allow fast and easy contextual adaptations to each community. The TANGO–CC captures individual- and community-level variation and shows good internal consistency in a data set from 2.5- to 11-year-old children from 17 diverse communities. Within-community variation outweighed between-community variation. We provide an open-source website for researchers to customize and use the task (https://ccp-odc.eva.mpg.de/tango-cc). The TANGO–CC can be used to assess basic social cognition in diverse communities and provides a roadmap for researching community-level and individual-level differences across cultures.

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“…To limit the potential of introducing bias into a study, the cross-cultural adaption process is essential when an instrument is used in a new language, setting or historical period. There is an imperative need to use instruments that have been validated to increase the likelihood that they accurately measure what they are intended to measure (Waschl and Chen, 2022; Ladak et al , 2022). A suitable measurement is one that is supported by published evidence indicating patient acceptability, reliability, validity and responsiveness (Kowalchuk Horn et al , 2012; Schokman et al , 2022).…”

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Cultural adaptation and validation of the Others as Shamer scale: a barrier to effective health-care assessment

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Aqeel

Kanwal

et al. 2022

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Purpose Despite the fact that shame is recognized as a significant factor in clinical encounters, it is under-recognized, under-researched and under-theorized in health prevention, assessment and cross-cultural contexts. Thus, this study aims to investigate the psychometric properties of the most widely used scale, the “Other as Shamer Scale” (OAS), to assess the risk and proclivities of external shame in adults. As in health care, there is a barrier between what is known through research in one culture and what is acceptable in practice in another culture. Design/methodology/approach The Urdu version was prepared using the standard back-translation method, and the study was conducted from June 2021 to January 2022. The translation and adaptation were completed in four steps: forward translation, adaptation and translation, back translation, committee approach and cross-language validation. The sample, selected through the purposive sampling method, is comprised of 200 adults (men = 100 and women = 100), with an age range of 18–60 years (M = 28, SD = 5.5), spanning all stages of life. The Cronbach's alpha reliability and factorial validity of the OAS were assessed through confirmatory factor analysis and Pearson correlation analyses. Internal consistency and test–retest reliability (at a two-week interval) were used to evaluate the reliability. Statistical analyses were performed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (version 22) software. Findings Preliminary analysis revealed that the overall instrument had good internal consistency (Urdu OAS a = 0.91; English OAS a = 0.92) as well as test–retest correlation coefficients for 15 days (r = 0.88). The factor loading of all items ranged from 0.69 to 0.9, which explained the significant level and indicated the model's overall goodness of fit. Originality/value Findings suggest that this scale has significant psychometric properties and the potential to be used as a valid, reliable and cost-effective clinical and research instrument. This study contributes to scientific knowledge and helps to develop and test indigenous cross-cultural instruments that can be used to examine external shame in Pakistani people.

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Cross‐cultural adaptation and validation of the Chinese version of Skills and Needs Inventories in Functional Behavior Assessments and Interventions (SNI‐FBAI‐CN)

Chen,

Dutt,

Nair

2024

Behavioral Interventions

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Cross‐cultural adaptation and validation of measures are necessary to provide evidence‐based educational intervention services among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) across countries. Language plays an integral role in the cross‐cultural adaptation and validation process of measures. Currently, there are limited validated tools in Chinese available to assess special education teachers' skills in functional behavior assessments and interventions in Mainland China to effectively support students with ASD. This study aimed to validate a Chinese version of the Skills and Needs Inventories in Functional Behavior Assessments and Interventions (SNI‐FBAI‐CN) in mainland China. The SNI‐FBAI, originally developed and validated in Singapore, in the English language, was translated, culturally adapted, and then administered to 239 special education teachers in two schools for children with ASD in China. Results show that the SNI‐FBAI‐CN has a three‐factor structure (i.e., skills in behavioral assessment, skills in behavioral interventions, and needs for training) that fits the data well, with good reliability for the overall scale, as well as the three subscales. Partial measurement invariance was established between the Chinese and the original Singapore samples, providing additional construct validity evidence for this tool. Limitations of this study and directions for future research are discussed.

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Cross-Cultural Considerations for Adapting Valid Psychoeducational Assessments

Cited by 3 publications

References 49 publications

Measuring variation in gaze following across communities, ages, and individuals — a showcase of the TANGO–CC

Measuring variation in gaze following across communities, ages, and individuals — a showcase of the TANGO–CC

Cultural adaptation and validation of the Others as Shamer scale: a barrier to effective health-care assessment

Cross‐cultural adaptation and validation of the Chinese version of Skills and Needs Inventories in Functional Behavior Assessments and Interventions (SNI‐FBAI‐CN)

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