ABSTRACT

Psychiatric disorders are common, and reliable measures are crucial for research and clinical practice. A cross-diagnostic construct that can be used to index treatment outcomes as well as prevalence of psychological ill health is psychological flexibility. The aim of this study was to validate a Swedish version of the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI). The MPFI has 12 subscales, six of which measure flexibility, and six that measure inflexibility. Using confirmatory factor analysis in a community sample of 670 participants, we found that a model with two higher order factors had satisfactory fit (CFI = .933) and a 12-factor model had the best fit to the data (CFI = .955). All 12 subscales showed adequate reliability (CRs = .803–.933) and the factor structure was similar across age groups and gender. Findings suggest that the Swedish version of the MPFI is a reliable instrument that can be used to index psychological flexibility. Potential areas for improvement of the instrument are discussed.

摘要

精神疾病很常见，可靠的措施对于研究和临床实践至关重要。可用于索引治疗结果以及心理疾病患病率的交叉诊断结构是心理灵活性。本研究的目的是验证瑞典版的多维心理灵活性量表（MPFI）。MPFI 有 12 个分量表，其中 6 个衡量灵活性，另外 6 个衡量不灵活性。在 670 名参与者的社区样本中使用验证性因子分析，我们发现具有两个高阶因子的模型具有令人满意的拟合度 (CFI = .933)，而 12 因子模型对数据具有最佳拟合度 (CFI = .955) 。所有 12 个分量表均显示出足够的可靠性（CR = .803–.933），并且各年龄组和性别的因素结构相似。研究结果表明，瑞典版 MPFI 是一种可靠的工具，可用于衡量心理灵活性。讨论了该仪器的潜在改进领域。