Invariance and convergent and discriminant validity between mothers' and fathers' ratings of oppositional defiant disorder toward adults, ADHD-HI, ADHD-IN, and academic competence factors within Brazilian, Thai, and American children.

Full Abstract

Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the invariance of an oppositional defiant disorder toward adults, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder-hyperactivity/impulsivity, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder-inattention, and an Academic Competence factor model between mothers' and fathers' ratings within Brazilian (n = 894), Thai (n = 2,075), and American (n = 817) children with the Child and Adolescent Disruptive Behavior Inventory (G. L. Burns, T. Taylor, & J. Rusby, 2001a, 2001b). The results showed invariance of item loadings, intercepts, and residuals, as well as factor variances, covariances, and means between mothers' and fathers' ratings within each sample. Convergent and discriminant validity was also observed for the between-parent factor correlations, thus providing additional support for the construct validity of the Child and Adolescent Disruptive Behavior Inventory. The confirmatory factor analysis invariance procedure provides a much better way to examine between-source ratings of behavior problems in children than do the simple correlation and raw discrepancy score procedures.

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Author information

Author/s: Burns, G Leonard (GL); de Moura, Marcela Alves (MA); Walsh, James A (JA); Desmul, Chris (C); Silpakit, Chatchawan (C); Sommers-Flanagan, John (J);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4820, USA. glburns(-atsign-)wsu.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Psychological assessment (Psychol Assess), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2008-Jun; vol 20 (issue 2) : pp 121-30

Dates: Created 2008/06/18; Completed 2008/08/18;

PMID: 18557689, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - diagnosis; epidemiology; psychology
Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders - diagnosis; epidemiology; psychology
Brazil - epidemiology
Child
Child Behavior - psychology
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Discriminant Analysis
Educational Status
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Fathers - psychology; statistics & numerical data

Fathers - psychology; statistics & numerical data
Female
Humans
Impulsive Behavior - psychology
Male
Mothers - psychology; statistics & numerical data
Parent-Child Relations
Questionnaires
Thailand - epidemiology
United States - epidemiology

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