Cross-cultural invariance of the Spanish version of the COVID-19 Assessment Scorecard to measure the perception of government actions against COVID-19 in Latin America

Caycho-Rodríguez T.; Valencia P.D.; Ventura-León J.; Carbajal-León C.; Vilca L.W.; Reyes-Bossio M.; Delgado-Campusano M.; Yupanqui-Lorenzo D.E.; Paredes-Angeles R.; Rojas-Jara C.; Gallegos M.; Cervigni M.; Martino P.; Polanco-Carrasco R.; Palacios D.A.; Moreta-Herrera R.; Samaniego-Pinho A.; Lobos Rivera M.E.; Buschiazzo Figares A.; Puerta-Cortés D.X.; Corrales-Reyes I.E.; Calderón R.; Arias Gallegos W.L.; Petzold O.; Camargo A.; Torales J.; Monge Blanco J.A.; González P.; Smith-Castro V.; Matute Rivera W.Y.; Ferrufino-Borja D.; Ceballos-Vásquez P.; Muñoz-del-Carpio-Toia A.; Palacios J.; Burgos-Videla C.; Florez León A.M.E.; Vergara I.; Vega D.; Barria-Asenjo N.A.; Schulmeyer M.K.; Urrutia Rios H.T.; Lira Lira A.E. · Psicologia: Reflexao e Critica (2023) · DOI: 10.1186/s41155-023-00277-9

Resumen

Objectives: The present study aimed to evaluate the measurement invariance of a general measure of the perception of governmental responses to COVID-|19 (COVID-SCORE-10) in the general population of 13 Latin American countries. Methods: A total of 5780 individuals from 13 Latin American and Caribbean countries selected by non-probabilistic snowball sampling participated. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed and the alignment method was used to evaluate invariance. Additionally, a graded response model was used for the assessment of item characteristics. Results: The results indicate that there is approximate measurement invariance of the COVID-SCORE-10 among the participating countries. Furthermore, IRT results suggest that the COVID-SCORE-10 measures with good psychometric ability a broad spectrum of the construct assessed, especially around average levels. Comparison of COVID-SCORE-10 scores indicated that participants from Cuba, Uruguay and El Salvador had the most positive perceptions of government actions to address the pandemic. Thus, the underlying construct of perception of government actions was equivalent in all countries. Conclusion: The results show the importance of initially establishing the fundamental measurement properties and MI before inferring the cross-cultural universality of the construct to be measured.

Instituciones: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas; Universidad Científica del Sur; Universidad Católica de Santa María; Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener; Universidad Privada del Norte; Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades; Universidad Católica San Pablo