Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Health Personality Assessment for Chinese older adults

Abstract

Introduction: The Health Personality Assessment (HPA) is a reliable and brief instrument to evaluating personality in the health domain, but it has not been used in China.

Objectives: To cross-culturally adapt and evaluate the psychometric property of HPA among Chinese older adults.

Methods: The Chinese version of HPA was generated following Beaton's guidelines. The psychometric evaluation of the HPA was conducted on 482 community-dwelling older adults.

Results: The Chinese version of HPA showed good internal consistency, item-total correlations, criterion validity, and test-retest reliability within a 2-week interval. Results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated a satisfactory model fit, convergent validity and discriminant validity were also in the acceptable range.

Conclusions: HPA showed good reliability and validity among the Chinese population. The generalization of the HPA may provide a new tool for health practitioners from the personality perspective.

Keywords: Cross-cultural adaptation; Older adults; Personality; Psychometrics; Validation study.