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Suffering Experiences Questionnaires: Scales Development and Validation.
Bassam Khoury1, Rodrigo C Vergara2,3
1McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Summary
The Suffering Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ) offers a new way to measure suffering and overcoming challenges. This comprehensive tool is validated and useful across diverse perspectives.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychometrics
Background:
- Suffering is a universal human experience, yet current measures often oversimplify it.
- Existing instruments fail to capture the full spectrum of suffering or the crucial aspect of overcoming it.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and validate the Suffering Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ) and its short form (SEQ-10).
- To create a comprehensive, theory-agnostic instrument for assessing both suffering and overcoming.
- To provide a non-symptom-based measure for clinical utility.
Main Methods:
- Item generation from clinical experience, followed by expert panel refinement and student review.
- Two validation studies assessed psychometric properties, reliability, and validity.
- Explored structural integrity, internal consistency, and convergent/concurrent validity.
Main Results:
- The SEQ was refined to a 20-item version (SEQ-20) and a 10-item short form (SEQ-10).
- Both SEQ versions demonstrated strong psychometric properties, including reliability and validity.
- The SEQ and SEQ-10 showed convergence with and predictive utility for symptomatology and well-being outcomes.
Conclusions:
- The SEQ and SEQ-10 are the first instruments to integrate the measurement of suffering and overcoming.
- These tools exhibit robust psychometric properties and significant clinical utility.
- Findings support the SEQ's applicability across Western and Eastern cultural perspectives.
