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The cognitive model of social anxiety disorder hypothesized that socially anxious individuals tend to negatively interpret ambiguous scenarios, which was termed an Interpretation bias (IB). The Adolescents’ Interpretation Bias Questionnaire (AIBQ) is a widely used self-report instrument to measure IB towards social situations for adolescents. The main objective of the current study was to culturally revise AIBQ in Chinese adolescents. In total, 960 adolescents participated, and four weeks later, 185 of them were re-measured with Chinese version of AIBQ (C-AIBQ). We tested construct validity, examined internal consistency and test-retest reliability, and assessed convergent and divergent validity of the C-AIBQ subscales. Overall, C-AIBQ variables showed satisfactory construct validity, internal consistency, test-retest reliability and convergent and discriminant validity, in particular the social negative interpretation subscale. Our results indicate that this instrument is adequate to measure interpretation bias in Chinese adolescents.
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Omega coefficient (ω) is one of the indicators to assess the consistency (Revelle & Zinbarg, 2009).
Single measure ICC was adopted in the present study, which means the stability of scores from one rater measured at two different occasions.
Kappa coefficients analyses were performed using MedCalc for Windows, version 19.0.3 (MedCalc Software, Ostend, Belgium).
Notwithstanding the value of RMSEA is greater than .08, the cut-off which is suggested by SEM investigators, the values of CFI, TLI and SRMR are good; hence, overall, the model is still acceptable (Barrett, 2007).
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Meng Yu designed the research, deal with data, and wrote the manuscript. P. Michiel Westenberg structured and critically revised the manuscript. Ye Wang helped collect data. Jianping Wang designed and consulted the research. Anne C. Miers structured and critically revised the manuscript, and provided ideas to data processing.
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Yu, M., Westenberg, P.M., Wang, Y. et al. Psychometric properties of the adolescents’ interpretation and belief questionnaire (AIBQ) for measuring interpretation Bias in Chinese adolescents. Curr Psychol 41, 8956–8964 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01346-x
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