Cultural validation of the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (CCAPS) for Mainland Chinese college students.

The purpose of this study was to develop a culturally validated version of the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (CCAPS) for Mainland Chinese college students. The study followed the Center for Collegiate Mental Health's translation policy in converting the original CCAPS-62 items into the Simplified Chinese (SC) version. Participants were 3,954 undergraduate and graduate students in a midsize university in Beijing. All freshmen completed the SC version of CCAPS-62 during the orientation week. Other levels of undergraduate and graduate students participated voluntarily in this study. The total sample was randomly divided for into 2 groups for exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), respectively. The results of root mean square error of approximation and standardized root mean squared residual have provided preliminary support for an adequate 7-factor model for the 44-item CCAPS-SC, which differs from the original CCAPS-62's 8-factor model that is based on U.S. college student populations. However, this study generated mixed CFA results. The values of Tucker-Lewis index and comparative fit index were slightly below the ideal value of model fit. Such mixed results suggest that the fit of the current model to the data can be improved in future research. Emotion Dysregulation is a new construct that consists of items from the original two subscales, Hostility and Depression. Despite a shorter version of the measure and its limitations of research design, the CCAPS-44-SC version has demonstrated both strong internal consistencies across all subscales and convergent validity with the Symptoms Checklist-90. Clinical implications for working with Mainland Chinese college students in China and in the United States are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]