National Institutes of Health Toolbox Emotion Battery for English- and Spanish-speaking adults: normative data and factor-based summary scores

Abstract

BackgroundThe National Institutes of Health Toolbox Emotion Battery (NIHTB-EB) is a “common currency”, computerized assessment developed to measure the full spectrum of emotional health. Though comprehensive, the NIHTB-EB’s 17 scales may be unwieldy for users aiming to capture more global indices of emotional functioning.MethodsNIHTB-EB was administered to 1,036 English-speaking and 408 Spanish-speaking adults as a part of the NIH Toolbox norming project. We examined the factor structure of the NIHTB-EB in English- and Spanish-speaking adults and developed factor analysis-based summary scores. Census-weighted norms were presented for English speakers, and sample-weighted norms were presented for Spanish speakers.ResultsExploratory factor analysis for both English- and Spanish-speaking cohorts resulted in the same 3-factor solution: 1) negative affect, 2) social satisfaction, and 3) psychological well-being. Confirmatory factor analysis supported similar factor structures for English- and Spanish-speaking cohorts. Model fit indices fell within the acceptable/good range, and our final solution was optimal compared to other solutions.ConclusionSummary scores based upon the normative samples appear to be psychometrically supported and should be applied to clinical samples to further validate the factor structures and investigate rates of problematic emotions in medical and psychiatric populations.

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“…Emotional health: The NIHTB-EB battery (Babakhanyan et al, 2018;Carlozzi et al, 2017;Salsman et al, 2014) yields three composites: (1) Negative Affect, (2) Social Satisfaction, and (3) Psychological Well-Being. Each were treated as separate continuous outcomes.…”

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“…The psychological constructs captured by these composite scores map reasonably well onto three of the four subdomains originally chosen on theoretical grounds by the team of researchers working to create the NIHTB-EBs (i.e., Negative Affect, Psychological Well-Being, Stress and Self-Efficacy, and Social Relationships; Gershon et al, 2013; Nowinski et al, 2013; Salsman et al, 2013). The Stress and Self-Efficacy subdomain, however, is not represented by a composite score in any of the child age groups (or in the adult English-speaking or Spanish-speaking groups; Babakhanyan et al, 2015; (Babakhanyan, McKenna, Casaletto and Heaton, 2018). This was expected in the proxy-report battery for children aged 3 to 7 years, in which this subdomain was purposefully not assessed (Salsman et al, 2013).…”

“…The composite scores presented here will complement the composite scores that have also been created for the NIHTB-EB for adults (Babakhanyan, McKenna, Casaletto and Heaton, 2018). Two sets of composite scores were created for this battery in adults (i.e., for English-speaking adults and for Spanish-speaking adults).…”

“…Furthermore, while each of the 31 total measures (i.e., 16 proxy-report and 15 self-report) that comprise the NIHTB-EBs for children can be considered separately as unique entities, the creation of composite scores may be useful in examining broader constructs of emotional functioning. Composite scores have been created for other NIHTB assessments, including the NIHTB Cognition Battery for adults (Heaton et al, 2014), the NIHTB Cognition Battery for children (Akshoomoff et al, 2013), and the NIHTB-EB for adults (Babakhanyan, Casaletto, & Heaton, 2015;Babakhanyan, I., McKenna, B. S., Casaletto, K. B., & Heaton, R. K. 2018). The primary goal of the current study was to empirically examine the major constructs assessed by each of the four NIHTB-EBs for children, using factor analyses of data from the U.S. national normative sample of 2,916 Englishspeaking children.…”

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“…The emotion battery was created to develop a set of measures that is sensitive to changes in health status and function over time (Salsman et al, 2013). Through self-report surveys, the battery assesses multiple emotional domains: with factor analysis-derived composites of psychological well-being, negative affect, and social satisfaction (Babakhanyan, Casaletto, & Heaton, 2015; Babakhanyan, McKenna, Casaletto, & Heaton, 2016; Salsman et al, 2013).…”