Mokken scaling of the Chinese version of the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey

David R. Thompson; Chantal F. Ski; Roger Watson; Wenru Wang

doi:10.1007/s11136-013-0530-6

Mokken scaling of the Chinese version of the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey

David R. Thompson^*, Chantal F. Ski, Roger Watson, Wenru Wang

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School of Nursing and Midwifery

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Abstract

Purpose: To validate the Chinese Mandarin version of the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey (MOS-SSS-CM) using a model of ordinal unidimensional measurement known as Mokken scaling.

Methods: We administered in face-to-face interviews the MOS-SSS-CM to 200 patients with coronary heart disease. Data were analysed using Mokken scaling.

Results: The MOS-SSS-CM contains a set of items which meet the criteria of a reliable (Rho = 0.87) moderate Mokken scale (H = 0.40) with weak invariant item ordering (H = 0.39).

Conclusions: The MOS-SSS-CM has a hierarchy of items which can be interpreted in terms of concerns with the physical aspects of social support through the need for companionship to items related to more personal worries.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	581-584
Number of pages	4
Journal	Quality of Life Research
Volume	23
Issue number	2
Early online date	20 Sept 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-013-0530-6
Publication status	Published - 01 Mar 2014

Keywords

Chinese
Coronary heart disease
Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey
Mokken scaling

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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