Fatalism as a traditional cultural belief potentially relevant to trauma sequelae: Measurement equivalence, extent and associations in six countries

作为传统文化信仰的宿命论可能与创伤后遗症：在六个国家的测量等效性，程度和关联

Fatalismo como una creencia cultural tradicional potencialmente relevante en la eqquivalencia de medición de secuelas de trauma: Equivalenencia de medida, extensión y asociaciones en seis países

Andreas Maerckera Department of Psychology, Division of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;b Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin–Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]

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Menachem Ben-Ezrac School of Social Work, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel

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Oscar A. Esparzad Institute of Social Sciences and Administration, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México

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Mareike Augsburgera Department of Psychology, Division of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Fatalism as a traditional cultural belief potentially relevant to trauma sequelae: Measurement equivalence, extent and associations in six countries

作为传统文化信仰的宿命论可能与创伤后遗症：在六个国家的测量等效性，程度和关联

Fatalismo como una creencia cultural tradicional potencialmente relevante en la eqquivalencia de medición de secuelas de trauma: Equivalenencia de medida, extensión y asociaciones en seis países

Table 1. Sample characteristics and fatalism item scores.

Table 2. Items of the fatalism scale with the instruction ‘Please answer the following questions based on what you think’ from Esparza et al. (Citation2015) and subscale assignments (in Italics).

Table 3. Country-specific sociodemographic associations (Beta standard regression coefficients – with Standard Errors in brackets) for the pessimistic fatalism subscale (Fatpes).

Table 4. Country-specific sociodemographic associations (Beta standard regression coefficients – with Standard Errors in brackets) for the non-judgmental fatalism (Fatn-j).

Table 5. Associations between PTSD symptoms and the for the partially different fatalism scales for Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya.

Table A1. Single-group CFAs for each country.

Table A2. Multi-group invariance testing based on the two-factor model without Kenya.

Table A3. Sociodemographic associations for the two fatalism subscales specific for Kenya.

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Fatalism as a traditional cultural belief potentially relevant to trauma sequelae: Measurement equivalence, extent and associations in six countries

作为传统文化信仰的宿命论可能与创伤后遗症：在六个国家的测量等效性，程度和关联

Fatalismo como una creencia cultural tradicional potencialmente relevante en la eqquivalencia de medición de secuelas de trauma: Equivalenencia de medida, extensión y asociaciones en seis países

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Table 1. Sample characteristics and fatalism item scores.

Table 2. Items of the fatalism scale with the instruction ‘Please answer the following questions based on what you think’ from Esparza et al. (Citation2015) and subscale assignments (in Italics).

Table 3. Country-specific sociodemographic associations (Beta standard regression coefficients – with Standard Errors in brackets) for the pessimistic fatalism subscale (Fatpes).

Table 4. Country-specific sociodemographic associations (Beta standard regression coefficients – with Standard Errors in brackets) for the non-judgmental fatalism (Fatn-j).

Table 5. Associations between PTSD symptoms and the for the partially different fatalism scales for Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya.

Table A1. Single-group CFAs for each country.

Table A2. Multi-group invariance testing based on the two-factor model without Kenya.

Table A3. Sociodemographic associations for the two fatalism subscales specific for Kenya.

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