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ASIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 134-140Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2012.09.009
Keywords
SCL-90; Factor analyses; School performance; China
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- China Ministry of Education Project 211 through the Central University of Finance and Economics [09SH003]
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Since the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) was introduced in China about 30 years ago, most studies with the instrument were conducted among clinical samples. This study tried to explore factor structure in a non-clinical and college student sample. We also planned to find if the SCL-90 scores are correlated with any school performance of the college students, such as grades and extra curriculum activities. The instrument together with a full-length questionnaire was administered to 1125 undergraduate students in a four-year university in China. Principal component factor analyses yielded a factor structure with some differences from those previously reported for other populations. We only derived four distinct factors: depression, somatization, obsessive-compulsive, and phobic anxiety. interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, hostility, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism all failed to yield. Reliability and validity tests proved that SCL-90 could be used on the sample of Chinese college students. Results showed that Rural/urban location, the only child status, attending sports competition, and wining an award in publishing articles are significantly associated with the SCL-90 scores. Students who attended sports competition had lower SCL-90 scores while students who won an award from publishing articles had higher SCL-90 scores than students who did not. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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