Abstract
This cross-sectional study aims to 1) investigate the factor structure and measurement invariance of subjective health complaints inventory in terms of gender, 2) examine the role of selfesteem, interparental conflict and gender in Czech adolescents’ subjective health complaints, and 3) examine a possible moderating effect of gender in these relationships. Czech adolescents (N = 1602, 51% girls) from an epidemiological part of the European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ELSPAC) completed questionnaires at home and a psychological sub-sample of ELSPAC (n = 343, 46% girls) completed questionnaires during individual psychological examinations in the years 2006 and 2007. The subjective health complaints inventory used in this study is a unidimensional and scalar invariant for sex. Girls reported more subjective health symptoms than boys. Self-esteem may play a protective role for the adolescents’ subjective health symptoms, especially in boys, whereas self-blame and threat in an interparental conflict may serve as a risk factor similarly for both sexes.
Highlights
Subjective health complaints are symptoms that an individual feels on an almost everyday basis with or without any specific medical diagnosis
The main aim of this study was threefold: 1) to examine the factor structure and measurement invariance for gender of the subjective health complaints scale used in this study; 2) to examine the relationship between perceived interparental conflicts, self-esteem, and subjective health complaints in a sample of 15-yearold Czech adolescents; and 3) to examine gender as a moderator of these relationships
Our study was primarily focused on subjective health complaints in a sample of 15-yearold Czech adolescents from the ELSPAC and on examination of relationships between subjective health complaints, self-esteem, and interparental conflict in a smaller subsample of adolescents from the psychological part of the ELSPAC
Summary
The main aim of this study was threefold: 1) to examine the factor structure and measurement invariance for gender of the subjective health complaints scale used in this study; 2) to examine the relationship between perceived interparental conflicts, self-esteem, and subjective health complaints in a sample of 15-yearold Czech adolescents; and 3) to examine gender as a moderator of these relationships. The first aim of our study was to examine the factor structure and measurement invariance of the subjective health complaint inventory for gender
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