The Spanish Version of the Clinical Analysis Questionnaire: A Precautionary Note

Velez-Diaz, Angel; Gonzalez-Reigosa, Fernando

doi:10.1207/s15327752jpa5103_8

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“…The Spanish version was so unidiomatic that the respondents could well have been “somewhat amused by the lack of facility with which the language was used” (p. 1275); the implication was that the data were compromised sufficiently to undermine the findings generated by the study. Similarly, Velez-Diaz and Gonzalez-Reigosa (1987) found numerous translation errors in the Spanish version of the Clinical Analysis Questionnaire (CAQ; Delhees & Cattell, 1975): 36% of the test items contained errors of grammar or syntax, sentences were poorly constructed and were written like translations from English rather than like Spanish, colloquial expressions were translated literally and made no sense, and double negatives were used unintelligibly. Thus, illiteracies in the use of the target language contribute to translation errors.…”

Section: Standardization As Cultural Suppressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methodological sources of cultural insensitivity in mental health research.

Rogler

1999

American Psychologist

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The concept of procedural norms, which is taken from the analysis of science as an institutionally structured social process, is used to explain the persistence of cultural insensitivity in research. The concept refers to the canons of research that tell scientists what should be studied and how, and they are taught to successive generations of researchers. An examination of cross-cultural studies in mental health reveals that cultural insensitivity stems from procedural norms in the development of content validity based on experts' rational analysis of concepts, in linguistic translations that try to conform to the exact terms of standardized instruments, and in the uncritical transferring of concepts across cultures. We need a wide-ranging examination of our procedural norms, with the objective of keeping such norms from suppressing, biasing, or deflecting cultural understandings. This article proposes a dialogue on the intricate connections between culture and our customary methodologies.

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Section: Standardization As Cultural Suppressionmentioning

confidence: 99%