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JOURNAL OF IMMIGRANT AND MINORITY HEALTH
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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-023-01520-2
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Acculturative stress; discrimination; homesickness; immigration stress; measurement; mental health; psychometrics; psychosocial
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The current study aims to reevaluate the psychometric properties of the Barcelona Immigration Stress Scale, an instrument used to measure stress levels associated with the migration trajectory in any migrant group. The study used a sample of 915 migrants who consulted in primary care and conducted various analyses to assess the scale's properties. The new reduced version of the scale showed good psychometric properties overall and when applied to the Latino migratory group, but results varied among different migratory groups.
The concept of acculturative stress has been the subject of debate, resulting in contradictory arguments regarding its measurement. Many of the existing acculturative stress instruments have been developed for use with specific migrant groups. The objective of the current study is to revisit the psychometric properties of the Barcelona Immigration Stress Scale, an instrument aimed at measuring stress levels associated with the migration trajectory in any migrant group. Using a sample of 915 migrants who consulted in primary care, we carried out principal component and confirmatory factor analyses as well as item response theory analyses applied both to the entire sample and to different migratory groups separately. The new reduced version of the scale has very good psychometric properties both in general and applied to the Latino migratory group, the largest in the area where the study was carried out. Results were acceptable among sub-Saharan, North African, and Asian groups but not among Eastern Europeans. These results are discussed through the specificities of each migratory group and the limitations of psychometrics to capture the complexity of immigration-related and acculturative stress.
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