Table 2 Best evidence synthesis of the psychometric properties
Version -Country | Internal consistency | Criterion validity | Construct validity – convergent | Construct validity- divergent | Reproducibility- agreement | Reproducibility- reliability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arabic women (MSPSS-AW)- USA | Moderate (−-) |  | Limited (−) | Limited (−) |  |  |
Arabic Generic – Lebanon | Limited (−) |  | Unknown (?) | Unknown (?) |  |  |
Chichewa- Malawi | Strong (+++) |  |  | Limited (−) |  |  |
Chinese (Simplified) – Malaysia | Strong (+++) | Unknown (?) |  | Unknown (?) |  | Unknown (?) |
Chinese (Traditional) – Hong Kong, China | Conflicting (−) | Unknown (?) | Moderate (−-) | Moderate (−-) |  | Limited (+) |
Chiyao - Malawi | Strong (+++) |  |  | Limited (−) |  |  |
Creole- USA (Haiti) | Unknown (?) | Â | Unknown (?) | Â | Â | Unknown (?) |
French - France | Limited (+) |  |  | Limited (−) |  | Limited (−) |
Hausa – Nigeria | Strong (+++) |  |  | Limited (−) |  | Limited (−) |
Korean-Korea | Strong (+++) |  | Limited (−) | Limited (−) |  |  |
Luganda - Uganda | Limited (−) |  |  |  |  |  |
Malay – Malaysia | Unknown (?) | Unknown (?) |  | Unknown (?) |  | Unknown (?) |
Persian – Iran | Limited (−) |  | Unknown (?) |  |  | Limited (−) |
Polish – Poland | Strong (+++) |  | Moderate (−-) | Moderate (−-) |  |  |
Portuguese – Portugal | Strong (+++) |  | Limited (−) | Limited (+) | Limited (−) |  |
Spanish – *USA, ** Spain | Limited (+) | Moderate (−-) | Moderate (−-) |  |  |  |
Swedish – Sweden | Moderate (++) |  | Limited (−) |  |  | Limited (+) |
Tamil – Malaysia | Limited (−) | Unknown (?) | Unknown (?) | Unknown (?) |  |  |
Thai – Thailand | Moderate (++) |  | Unknown (?) |  |  | Limited (+) |
Turkish (Original) - Turkey | Moderate (++) |  | Conflicting (−) | Conflicting (+) |  |  |
Turkish (Revised) – Turkey | Conflicting (−) |  | Unknown (?) | Unknown (?) |  | Unknown (?) |
Urdu – Pakistan | ? (unknown) |  | Limited (−) | Moderate (−-) |  |  |