DIMENSIONS OF DISTRESS - A CROSS-CULTURAL FACTOR REPLICATION

A brief 20-item measure of psychological distress, the GHQ20, was admi nistered to three diverse ethnic groups, which included Chinese, Filip ino, and Maori subjects. The FACTOREP method was employed to see if th e previously reported four-factor structure of the GHQ20 could then be replicated. The four-factor structure was clearly replicated across t he three groups. It is suggested that this measure may be useful for f uture cross-cultural studies in which a brief symptom measure yielding information on several different dimensions of distress is required.