Concurrent Sessions 6 - (NBCC CE Credit: #1 hr and Conference Attendance Credit: #1 hr)

231-01: Snyder's Children's Hope Scale: Evidence For Use in a Latino Sample
Hua Lin, Isaac J. Washburn, Ronald B. Cox, Sumeyra Sahbaz, Kimberly A. Greder

231-02: Pediatric Psychological Stress Scale: Evidence For Use in a Latino Sample
Sumeyra Sahbaz, Ronald B. Cox, Hua Lin, Isaac J. Washburn, Kimberly A. Greder

231-03: Positive Youth Development Caring Scale: Evidence For Use in a Latino Sample
Isaac J. Washburn, Hua Lin, Sumeyra Sahbaz, Kimberly A. Greder, Ronald B. Cox  

231-04: Fear of Deportation Scale: Evidence For Use in a Latino Sample
Ronald B. Cox, Sumeyra Sahbaz, Hua Lin, Isaac J. Washburn, Kimberly A. Greder

Discussant: Kimberly A. Greder
Chair: Ronald B. Cox

Summary
Because cultural groups differ in their personal values and the meaning they ascribe to different behaviors; the validity and reliability of a measure may not hold across cultures. Increasing the number of measures whose psychometric properties have been tested for use with Latino immigrant populations is of growing importance.Thissymposium is the presentation of the psychometric properties of four measures. These are 1) Snyder's Children's Hope Scale, 2) NIH Pediatric Psychological Stress Scale, 3) the Caring scale from Positive Youth Development, and 4) a Fear of Deportation scale. In each case, the samples for these studies consist of 1st and 2nd generation Latino early adolescents residing in a Midwestern State in the U.S. All four papers assess for factor structure, internal consistency, response option functioning, gender and time invariance, and predictive validity to determine their utility with the target population.

Objectives
-- Present the factor structure, internal consistency, and response option functioning of four scales.
-- Present the time and gender invariance of four scales.
-- Present the construct and predictive validity of four scales.

Subject Codes: stress, immigration, resilience
Population Codes: adolescence, Hispanic/Latina/o/x, undocumented immigrant
Method and Approach Codes: item response theory (IRT), measurement development