Cognitive assessment tools: Validity, reliability, criterion evidence of the Mexican version of MPFI

Having valid and reliable versions of instruments to evaluate psychological characteristics is an important factor to consider when assessing individual's well-being. Also, when validity evidence is reinforced with additional empirical support, control of construct bias and its positive consequences beyond psychometrics properties (i.e. fairness, equity, and inclusion) provides practitioners with a consistent source of information that can be used as
starting point of a potential treatment.
Likewise, having a set of psychometrically sound tools theoretically connected, allows psychologists to extend diagnostic information sources to propose a treatment strategy. Tools to evaluate cognitive traits are assessment often developed for the U.S. or European population, however, the structure of such kind of tools requires continuous examination across cultures. Specifically, there is a need for stronger validity evidence using confirmatory analyses in addition to criterion analysis when developing alternative editions of original tools (e.g. when tools aim to evaluate people having different languages or cultures). Data collected from a Mexican public university was used to examine, via a set of confirmatory factor analysis, the psychometric structure of a Spanish edition of a tool created recently in the United States (2018), the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI). Additionally, criterion validity evidence for the structure of the MPFI was evaluated via examining joint information collected with other theoretically related tools, in specific the AAQ-ll (psychological distress), TMMS-Mx (perceived Emotional Intelligence), and EDEA (experienced Enjoyment in Adults). Results support the basis for future cross-cultural research conducted with Hispanic populations within northern Mexico using these tools as well-being screening to promote psychological functioning.