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Cross-cultural validation refers to whether measures (in most cases psychological constructs) that were originally generated in a single culture are applicable, meaningful, and thus equivalent in another culture (Matsumoto, 2003). It has been mainly applied in psychological studies which need to adapt self-reported health status measures for use in languages other than the source language (Beaton, Bombardier, Guillemin, & Ferraz, 2000).
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Most published measures of health status have been originally developed for, and validated in, English-speaking populations. With the increased number of multinational and multicultural studies, the need to adapt these measures for use in other languages has become more widespread (Beaton et al., 2000). However, it is challenging to adapt an instrument in a culturally relevant and comprehensible form while maintaining the meaning of the original items (Sperber, Devellis, & Boehlecke, 1994). If measures are to be used across...
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Huang, W.Y., Wong, S.H. (2014). Cross-Cultural Validation. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_630
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