ISSN: 2167-1044
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Department of Psychology, Ulster University, Northern, Ireland
Research
Assessing the Validity and Reliability of the International Anxiety and Depression Questionnaire in Two Bereaved National Samples
Author(s): Philip Hyland*, Enya Redican, Thanos Karatzias and Mark Shevlin
Background: The International Anxiety Questionnaire (IAQ) and International Depression Questionnaire (IDQ)
have been developed as self-report measures of ICD-11 Generalized Anxiety Disorder (ICD-11 GAD) and ICD-11
Single Episode Depressive Disorder (ICD-11 DD). This study tested the psychometric properties of the IAQ and
IDQ in two samples of bereaved adults from the United Kingdom (UK) and the Republic of Ireland.
Objective: Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to test the combined dimensionality and measurement
invariance of the IAQ and IDQ across the UK (n=1,012) and Irish (n=1,011) samples. Differential item functioning
was tested using Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) modelling based on country, age, and sex while
convergent validity was assessed using bivariate correlations. Prevalence rates of ICD-11 GA.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2167-1044.23.12.498