DSM-IV ADHD Symptoms Self-Ratings by Adolescents

Abstract

These findings extend existing gender invariance data for the ADHD symptoms. The theoretical and clinical implications of the findings as well as the revision implications for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-V) are discussed.

Measurement Invariance of Oppositional Defiant Disorder Dimensions in 3-Year-Old Preschoolers

“…The α level for testing nested models with the scaled chi-square difference (Bryant & Satorra, 2012) was set at .01 (e.g., Dekovic, et al, 2006;Ferrando, 2000;Gomez, 2013) for Type I error control (Green & Babyak, 1997).…”

Measurement Invariance of the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale–Short-Form (IGDS9-SF) between the United States of America, India and the United Kingdom

“…In particular, the significant amount of IGD research across different disciplines (i.e., clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, sociology, and human-computer interaction), along with the global use of IGDS9-SF for clinical purposes, make the evaluation of its cross-cultural psychometric properties imperative (Petry et al, 2014;Pontes and Griffiths, 2015). A worldwide-used measure should demonstrate equivalence of underlying psychometric and scaling properties to be efficiently used across cultures (Gomez, 2013;Gomez and Rohner, 2011). Measurement invariance (MI) refers to groups (i.e., cultures, countries) reporting the same observed scores when they exhibit the same level of the underlying trait (Gomez, 2013;Gomez and Rohner, 2011).…”

“…A worldwide-used measure should demonstrate equivalence of underlying psychometric and scaling properties to be efficiently used across cultures (Gomez, 2013;Gomez and Rohner, 2011). Measurement invariance (MI) refers to groups (i.e., cultures, countries) reporting the same observed scores when they exhibit the same level of the underlying trait (Gomez, 2013;Gomez and Rohner, 2011). If there is no support for the MI of an instrument across the groups being studied, then the results of such comparisons are confounded by differences in measurement and scaling properties.…”

“…Multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MGCFA) has been recommended to assess MI (Gomez, 2013;Gomez and Rohner, 2011). This analysis evaluates the invariance of the items of a psychometric scale between different groups considering the number of factors (i.e., configural invariance), item factor loadings (i.e., metric invariance), item intercepts and thresholds for continuous and categorical responses, respectively (i.e., scalar invariance), and error variances (Gomez, 2013;Gomez and Rohner, 2011). Support for configural invariance indicates that the same number of factors and the same patterns of free factor loadings apply between the groups.…”

Testing Measurement Invariance across Groups of Children with and without Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder: Applications for Word Recognition and Spelling Tasks

“…Measurement invariance has been a topic of interest in clinical ADHD studies; however, most of those studies explored the underlying construct of ADHD across various subgroups defined by demographics, for example, based on gender, age, or different raters ( Gomez, 2013 , 2016 ; Makransky and Bilenberg, 2014 ; Narad et al, 2015 ; Zeeuw et al, 2015 ; Caci et al, 2016 ; Morin et al, 2016 ). In general, these studies demonstrated that ADHD is largely measurement invariant across gender, age, and raters.…”