Psychometric Properties of the Suicide Stroop Task in a Chinese College Population
ObjectiveThis study aimed to test the psychometric properties of the suicide stroop task in a Chinese college population.MethodsCollege students (n = 121) who were in the 1st–4th grade, fluent in Chinese, and without color blindness were recruited from a university in Guangzhou, China from September...
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| description | ObjectiveThis study aimed to test the psychometric properties of the suicide stroop task in a Chinese college population.MethodsCollege students (n = 121) who were in the 1st–4th grade, fluent in Chinese, and without color blindness were recruited from a university in Guangzhou, China from September to December 2019. Participants were administered the suicide stroop task at baseline and 1-month follow-up.ResultsThe suicide stroop task showed excellent internal reliability (Cronbach’s α ranged from 0.940 to 0.953). However, the suicide stroop task did not reveal suicide-related attentional biases among current suicide ideators and was not significantly associated with the severity of suicidal ideation, depression, hopelessness, nor anhedonia (all p values > 0.05), indicating a lack of concurrent validity for the task. Additionally, the two-time data of interference scores could not generate intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) due to a negative average covariance among data, which indicated poor test–retest consistency for the task.ConclusionThe results of this study did not support the use of the suicide stroop task on the identification of suicidal risk among Chinese college students. It is crucial to assess the psychometric properties of behavioral measures rigorously as self-report measures before large applications in clinical and community settings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cb0af049f0d84fc79adede6e4762ceb02022-12-21T20:17:05ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-02-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.586391586391Psychometric Properties of the Suicide Stroop Task in a Chinese College PopulationLu Niu0Xia Feng1Zhouxin Jia2Yu Yu3Liang Zhou4Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, ChinaThe Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, ChinaSchool of Economic and Management, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, ChinaHospital Evaluation Office, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, ChinaThe Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, ChinaObjectiveThis study aimed to test the psychometric properties of the suicide stroop task in a Chinese college population.MethodsCollege students (n = 121) who were in the 1st–4th grade, fluent in Chinese, and without color blindness were recruited from a university in Guangzhou, China from September to December 2019. Participants were administered the suicide stroop task at baseline and 1-month follow-up.ResultsThe suicide stroop task showed excellent internal reliability (Cronbach’s α ranged from 0.940 to 0.953). However, the suicide stroop task did not reveal suicide-related attentional biases among current suicide ideators and was not significantly associated with the severity of suicidal ideation, depression, hopelessness, nor anhedonia (all p values > 0.05), indicating a lack of concurrent validity for the task. Additionally, the two-time data of interference scores could not generate intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) due to a negative average covariance among data, which indicated poor test–retest consistency for the task.ConclusionThe results of this study did not support the use of the suicide stroop task on the identification of suicidal risk among Chinese college students. It is crucial to assess the psychometric properties of behavioral measures rigorously as self-report measures before large applications in clinical and community settings.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.586391/fullsuicidesuicide stroop taskattentional biasreliabilityvalidity |
| spellingShingle | Lu Niu Xia Feng Zhouxin Jia Yu Yu Liang Zhou Psychometric Properties of the Suicide Stroop Task in a Chinese College Population Frontiers in Psychology suicide suicide stroop task attentional bias reliability validity |
| title | Psychometric Properties of the Suicide Stroop Task in a Chinese College Population |
| title_full | Psychometric Properties of the Suicide Stroop Task in a Chinese College Population |
| title_fullStr | Psychometric Properties of the Suicide Stroop Task in a Chinese College Population |
| title_full_unstemmed | Psychometric Properties of the Suicide Stroop Task in a Chinese College Population |
| title_short | Psychometric Properties of the Suicide Stroop Task in a Chinese College Population |
| title_sort | psychometric properties of the suicide stroop task in a chinese college population |
| topic | suicide suicide stroop task attentional bias reliability validity |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.586391/full |
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