Evaluating the factor structure and measurement invariance of the 20-item short version of the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale across multiple countries, languages, and gender identities

Fournier L 1 , Bőthe B 2 , Demetrovics Z 3 , Koós M 3 , Kraus SW 4 , Nagy L 3 Show all authors , Potenza MN 5 , Ballester-Arnal R 6 , Batthyány D 7 , Bergeron S 2 , Briken P 8 , Burkauskas J 9 , Cárdenas-López G 10 , Carvalho J 11 , Castro-Calvo J 12 , Chen L 13 , Ciocca G 14 , Corazza O 15 , Csako RI 16 , Fernandez DP 17 , Fujiwara H 18 , Fernandez EF 19 , Fuss J 20 , Gabrhelík R 21 , Gewirtz-Meydan A 22 , Gjoneska B 23 , Gola M 24 , Grubbs JB 25 , Hashim HT 26 , Saiful Islam M 27 , Ismail M 26 , Jiménez-Martínez MC 28 , Jurin T 29 , Kalina O 30 , Klein V 31 , Költő A 32 , Lee SK 33 , Lewczuk K 34 , Lin CY 35 , Lochner C 36 , López-Alvarado S 37 , Lukavská K 21 , Mayta-Tristán P 38 , Miller DJ 39 , Orosová O 30 , Orosz G 40 , Ponce FP 41 , Quintana GR 42 , Quintero Garzola GC 43 , Sungkyunkwan University Research Team 44 , Ramos-Diaz J 45 , Rigaud K 40 , Rousseau A 46 , De Tubino Scanavino M 47 , Schulmeyer MK 48 , Sharan P 49 , Shibata M 18 , Shoib S 50 , Sigre-Leirós V 1 , Sniewski L 16 , Spasovski O 51 , Steibliene V 9 , Stein DJ 52 , Strizek J 53 , Tsai MC 35 , Ünsal BC 3 , Vaillancourt-Morel MP 54 , Van Hout MC 55 , Billieux J 1

Affiliations 

  • 1 Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2 Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
  • 3 Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
  • 4 Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
  • 5 Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
  • 6 Departamento de Psicología Básica, Clínica y Psicobiología, University Jaume I of Castellón, Spain
  • 7 Institute for Behavioural Addictions, Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Austria
  • 8 Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine, and Forensic Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
  • 9 Laboratory of Behavioral Medicine, Neuroscience Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Palanga, Lithuania
  • 10 Virtual Teaching and Cyberpsychology Laboratory, School of Psychology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
  • 11 William James Center for Research, Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
  • 12 Department of Personality, Assessment, and Psychological Treatments, University of Valencia, Spain
  • 13 Department of Psychology, College of Humanity and Social Science, Fuzhou University, China
  • 14 Section of Sexual Psychopathology, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
  • 15 Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
  • 16 Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
  • 17 Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
  • 18 Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • 19 Higher Education Learning Philosophy University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 20 Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Sex Research, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
  • 21 Department of Addictology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 22 School of Social Work, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel
  • 23 Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
  • 24 Institute of Psychology, The Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
  • 25 Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States of America
  • 26 College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Iraq
  • 27 Department of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 28 Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, Colombia
  • 29 Department of Psychology, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  • 30 Department of Educational Psychology and Psychology of Health, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia
  • 31 School of Psychology, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  • 32 Health Promotion Research Centre, University of Galway, Ireland
  • 33 Department of Psychiatry, Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital, South Korea
  • 34 Institute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland
  • 35 College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
  • 36 SAMRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
  • 37 University of Cuenca, Ecuador
  • 38 Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Perú
  • 39 College of Healthcare Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
  • 40 Artois University, Arras, France
  • 41 Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Talca, Chile
  • 42 Departamento de Psicología y Filosofía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Arica y Parinacota, Chile
  • 43 Florida State University ? Republic of Panama, Ciudad del Saber, Republic of Panama
  • 44 Department of Psychology, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
  • 45 Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, Perú
  • 46 Leuven School for Mass Communication, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  • 47 Department of Psychiatry, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
  • 48 Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
  • 49 Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
  • 50 Department of Health Services, Srinagar, India
  • 51 Faculty of Philosophy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
  • 52 SAMRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry & Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • 53 Austrian Public Health Institute, Vienna, Austria
  • 54 Département de Psychologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Canada
  • 55 South East Technological University, Waterford, Ireland
Assessment, 2024 Jul 26.
PMID: 39054862 DOI: 10.1177/10731911241259560

Abstract

The UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Model and the various psychometric instruments developed and validated based on this model are well established in clinical and research settings. However, evidence regarding the psychometric validity, reliability, and equivalence across multiple countries of residence, languages, or gender identities, including gender-diverse individuals, is lacking to date. Using data from the International Sex Survey (N = 82,243), confirmatory factor analyses and measurement invariance analyses were performed on the preestablished five-factor structure of the 20-item short version of the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale to examine whether (a) psychometric validity and reliability and (b) psychometric equivalence hold across 34 country-of-residence-related, 22 language-related, and three gender-identity-related groups. The results of the present study extend the latter psychometric instrument's well-established relevance to 26 countries, 13 languages, and three gender identities. Most notably, psychometric validity and reliability were evidenced across nine novel translations included in the present study (i.e., Croatian, English, German, Hebrew, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese-Portugal, and Spanish-Latin American) and psychometric equivalence was evidenced across all three gender identities included in the present study (i.e., women, men, and gender-diverse individuals).

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