Revista Iberoamericana de Diagnostico y Evaluacion Psicologica
Volume 1, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 133-155

Psychometric characteristics of the migratory stress scale (OIEM) in Mexican migrant population to the United States [Características psicométricas de una Escala de Ocurrencia e Intensidad del Estrés Migratorio (OIEM) en población migrante mexicana a Estados Unidos] (Article)

Hernández J.L.A.* , Sugiyama M.E.R.I. , Lagunes I.R.
  • a Psicología Social y Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 5 de Febrero No. 532 int. 203, Col. Alamos, Delegacion Benito Juarez, C. P. 03400, Mexico
  • b Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Psicología, Mexico
  • c Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Psicología UNAM, Mexico

Abstract

The migration of Mexican citizens to the United States has changed notably since the decade of 1990. In order to create an instrument that evaluates the presence of stress in the migratory process was designed the Occurrence and Intensity of the Migratory Stress Scale, shaped by three subscales: To prepare itself (himself, herself to go out, to travel and arrival to the target place. 605 questionnaires were applied to Mexicans, males, major of 18 years that were for crossing the border towards The US or that had been repatriated to Mexico. A specific analysis of the scale was done in each of his 24 items. The reliability of every subscale and of the total scale had given an Alpha coefficient higher than 0.9. In the validity had been obtained congruent factors with the used theory, and that explain a variance higher than 75% in every subscale and in the total scale.

Author Keywords

Migratory stress Migration Stress Mental health Validity Reliability

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ISSN: 11353848
Cited by: 1
Original Language: Spanish