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Chile Solidario Psychosocial Measures: Reliability, Validity, and Next Steps

Chile Solidario Psychosocial Measures: Reliability, Validity, and Next Steps. Emily Ozer, PhD UC-Berkeley School of Public Health. Overview. Overview of psychosocial measures Summary of each measure in ’06, ’07 Established measure unless otherwise noted

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Chile Solidario Psychosocial Measures: Reliability, Validity, and Next Steps

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  1. Chile Solidario Psychosocial Measures:Reliability, Validity, and Next Steps Emily Ozer, PhD UC-Berkeley School of Public Health

  2. Overview • Overview of psychosocial measures • Summary of each measure in ’06, ’07 • Established measure unless otherwise noted • Issues, Questions, and Ideas for Next Steps

  3. Psychological Empowerment as Theoretical Frame* • Within person (perceptions) • Domain-specific perceived control, self-efficacy • Motivation for control • Perceived competence • Interactional • Skill development, critical awareness, resource mobilization • Behavioral • Community involvement, participation, coping *FOSIS/Programa Puente, Doc # 13 (2006); Zimmerman (2000).

  4. Potential Pathways: Psychological Processes • Social work support • Emotional • Practical • Organizational • Connection to services • Mastery/success experiences • Shifting in family roles • Employment, economic gains • Possible Outcomes • Access to resources • Decreased stress • Sense of agency • More hopefulness • Skills, Self-efficacy • Self-esteem • Perceived Support* *May require less family & friend support if services successfully accessed

  5. Psychosocial Outcomes Skills, Efficacy: Services, Work, Schooling Locus of Control Psychological Distress Self Esteem Future orientation Optimism Social support Specific; proximal More stable; “dispositional”

  6. Self-Efficacy (new) • Program experts’ input on domains, scenario • Work/job search (6 items) • “Imagine que usted llega a su trabajo y le informan que ha sido despedido/a.” • ¿Le preguntaría a su jefe por qué lo despidieron?... • ¿Iría a la municipalidad para inscribirse en la OMIL? • Changes from ’06 to ’07 – 3 items consistent • Strong internal consistency (.76-.77) • Work and school efficacy correlated .3

  7. Self-Efficacy: Children’s Schooling • 4 items consistent across ’06, ‘07 (alpha.76-.77) • “A veces los niños tienen dificultades en la escuela… Imagine que esta situación le ocurriera a su hijo o hija, ¿qué tan seguro está que podría realizar las siguientes acciones? • ¿Hablaría con su hijo acerca del problema en la escuela aunque él se niegue a hacerlo y le diga que no es asunto suyo? • ¿Pediría una reunión con la profesora para conversar sobre los problemas de su hijo o hija?

  8. Self-Efficacy: Dealing With Bureaucracy • Developed by team in Chile for 2007 • 4 items; reduced to 3 (alpha=.62) • Supongamos que usted tiene preguntas acerca de la ficha de protección social y necesita ir a la municipalidad a pedir más información…. • Averiguaría antes el horario de atención y los papeles que tiene que llevar? • Si la asistente social no le explica correctamente, ¿iría a preguntarle a otro funcionario municipal?

  9. Social Support • Family support: 4 items(alpha=.84-.88) • ¿Cuántos familiares o parientes tiene con los que se sienta en confianza? • ¿Cuántos de ellos le prestarían dinero cuando usted lo necesita? • Friend support: 4 items (alpha=.91-.92) • ¿Cuántos amigos verdaderos tiene? • ¿A cuántos de ellos podría usted contarle sus problemas? • Family and friend support correlated .28; modestly correlated with other variables; friend support moderately correlated with external control (.36).

  10. Psychological Distress • MHI-5 – 8 items reflect distress in prior month • Change in ‘06 to ‘07 wording – 4 items consistent (alpha=.74) • Nerviosa(o) o preocupada(o)? • Triste y bajoneada(o)? • Contenta(o) o feliz? (reverse) • Respuesta: todos los dias, mayor parte, algunos dias, pocos dias, nunca. • Modestly correlated in expected directions

  11. Self Esteem • 7 items (alpha=.91) • Cuando usted se propone algo, ¿Cuánto se considera usted una persona? • Creativa, Capaz de salir adelante, Luchadora, Con deseo de superarse, Fuerte, Trabajadora, Responsible • Positively correlated with efficacy, optimism, future expectations, lower distress • Note strong social desirability

  12. Locus of Control • Internal - 3 items(alpha=.81-.87) • Con respecto a sus sueños, anhelos o metas personales… • ¿En qué medida obtenerlos depende de su propia responsabilidad? • External – 4 items (alpha=.48-.55) • ¿En qué medida depende del apoyo de su familia (demas/ familia/ayuda estatal)? • Internal control positively correlated with future orientation, self-esteem, efficacy, lower distress • External control positively correlated with perceived support; weakly correlated with future orientation, self-esteem, etc.

  13. Optimism; Future Orientation • “Uno de los efectos positivos del programa, frecuentemente señalado por la mujeres participantes, se refiere a la ampliación de sus capacidades y también de sus aspiraciones.” • (Mideplan, 2008, Impactos en el Sistema Familiar por la Incorporación de Mujeres al Mundo del Trabajo. Programas de Empleo y Empleabilidad del Sistema Chile Solidario, p. 9) • ¿Cómo se ve usted en el futuro: • Situación económica; trabajo; ingresos económicos; salud; vivienda? • (Respuesta: Mejor que ahora…Igual….Peor, etc.) • “Ahora” assessed during/after participation*

  14. Optimism; Future Orientation • Escala 2: • 4 items – e.g. No puedo cambiar mis condiciónes de vida. /Siento que para mi las puertas están cerradas. • Excellent internal consistency for both • Highly correlated (.8) so combined • Moderately correlated in expected directions • .3 self-esteem, internal locus; .18-.25 self-efficacy; .15 lower distress

  15. Considerations • Sensitivity to intervention and SES improvements in other studies? • Self-efficacy • Social support • Psychological distress • Self-esteem • Locus of control • Future orientation and optimism

  16. Considerations • Overall, psychosocial variables show few strong correlations with participant SES, demographics • Stronger optimism for younger; modest + for higher household income • No strong correlations for social support • Depressive symptoms higher for women, lower education, female-headed household • Internal locus of control and self-esteem higher for younger; those with more education

  17. Issues and Next Steps • Some outcomes hard to influence even with targeted, intensive intervention • Triangulation of quant and qual data? • Are quant measures adequately capturing key gains observed in qualitative research?

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