@article{ref1,
title="A Cross-cultural Study of Recovery for People with Psychiatric Disabilities Between U.S. and Japan",
journal="Community mental health journal",
year="2012",
author="Fukui, Sadaaki and Shimizu, Yuka and Rapp, Charles A.",
volume="48",
number="6",
pages="804-812",
abstract="The concept of recovery has been expanding overseas with remarkable speed. The Recovery Assessment Scale (RAS) is one of the measures widely used to capture self-perceptions of a sense of recovery for people with psychiatric disabilities. The current study tested measurement invariance of RAS between the US and Japanese samples for people with psychiatric disabilities, which is a precursor of further cross-cultural comparisons without any contamination of systematic cultural bias. A multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis was applied to US (N = 446) and Japanese (N = 214) participants for testing configural, loading, and intercept invariance. The results revealed that RAS items equally captured their associated recovery domains between American and Japanese participants. For two domains, &quot;personal confidence and hope&quot; and &quot;reliance on others,&quot; the two groups systematically responded with different patterns. Different cultural environments may have additive influences toward people's response patterns to their recovery across countries.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0010-3853",
doi="10.1007/s10597-012-9513-2",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-012-9513-2"
}