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. 2008 Jan 21;6:5. doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-6-5

Table 4.

Rasch Analysis of the original 24-item final version including the 5-point Likert response scale

Content DIF Analyses
Item Model χ2 Fit (df) P value Item χ2 Fit Item Residual Rev Threshold Gender Age Depression
Subscale I 77.06 (40) .00003
7 3.08 1.01
10 12.77 -0.06
14 15.27 3.11
17 5.52 -0.60
PSI = .869 21 21.12 3.49
24 11.74 -1.25
32 10.70 1.61
34 6.38 -1.07
Subscale II 109.4 (48) .00001
12 10.57 -0.41 Uniform
13 6.57 .58
PSI = .807 16 4.65 .02
19 42.61 4.96 Uniform
20 11.79 -1.04
22 17.47 3.76
36 10.40 .66
37 5.34 .32
Subscale III 59.06 (48) .131
2 1.94 .54
4 10.11 -0.31
PSI = .745 8 3.17 1.24
9 19.17 -2.05
15 9.01 3.43
25 1.34 .37
30 6.73 1.58
33 7.55 -1.73

In bold, item-residuals > 2.5 or item χ2 fit with p < .05 corrected for Bonferroni Multiple Comparisons