Differential Item Functioning in the Assessment of ADHD Symptoms Based on Gender and Rating Format
The aim of this paper was to test the invariance of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms in a sample of 634 children attending to gender. We firstly examined the fit to the data of five models using confirmatory factor analysis, and ordinal logistic regression was used as a metho...
| Autor Principal: | Arias Martínez, Benito; Universidad de Valladolid |
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| Otros Autores: | Arias González, Víctor B.; Facultad de Psicología Universidad de Talca Chile, Gómez Sánchez, Laura Elísabet; Universidad de Oviedo, Calleja González, María Angélica Inmaculada; Universidad de Valladolid |
| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | spa |
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2012
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revPsycho/article/view/1865 |
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The aim of this paper was to test the invariance of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms in a sample of 634 children attending to gender. We firstly examined the fit to the data of five models using confirmatory factor analysis, and ordinal logistic regression was used as a method of estimation of both uniform and non-uniform differential item functioning (DIF). The results showed that (a) the three correlated factors model was the best fit model, and (b) there was no gender-specific DIF, either in the ordinal rating form (scale of 1 to 4) or the binary rating form (0-1). These results support that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR does not establish ADHD differential diagnosis criteria for boys and girls. |
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