Psychometric properties of the Test of Everyday Attention for Children in Greek-speaking school children

Abstract

The present study aimed at exploring the psychometric properties of the Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch) in normally developing Greek-speaking school population (6-12 years old). TEA-Ch is an assessment that captures the multidimensional nature of the developing attentional system with child-friendly test tasks. The sample consisted of 174 Greek-speaking primary school children of both genders (N ¼ 88 girls). Children were assessed individually using the TEA-Ch and two tasks (Vocabulary and Working Memory) from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-3rd edition (WISC-III)-Greek Version. Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine the factorial validity of the TEA-Ch in the Greek-speaking population. The results verified both a two-factor (attentional control/switching and sustained attention) and a theory-driven three-factor structure of the TEA-Ch, namely selective attention, attentional control/switching and sustained attention. Moreover, the weak correlations of TEA-Ch tasks with vocabulary and working memory tasks provide evidence for its divergent validity and its usefulness as an additional measure of abilities that are not captured by wellknown conventional intelligence tasks. Furthermore, TEA-Ch appears to be an agesensitive assessment tool.

Development of Attentional Functions in School-Age: Evidence from both Traditional and Computerized Tasks

“…Age significantly affected performance on each TEA-Ch subtest as predicted, although the difference in performance decreased as children matured in age. No significant impact of gender was found (see also Malegiannaki et al, 2014). Similar performance patterns were detected more recently with 158 younger Chinese participants (starting from the age of 3 years until 16 years) (Chan et al, 2008).…”

“…A detailed description of the nine subtests and their test items is available elsewhere (Manly et al, 1999;2001). Its construct validity and appropriateness for the use with Greek-speaking school population has been established (Malegiannaki et al, 2014). In the present study the following four tasks were selected as representative measurements of the attentional functions:…”

“…In the case of TEA-Ch, typically developing population has been used only in psychometric (Chang et al, 2008;Malegiannaki, Metallidou, & Kiosseoglou, 2014) and normative studies (Manly et al, 2001). TEA-Ch was found to be an age sensitive assessment tool for attention in different school age populations, i.e., Australian, Chinese and Greek).…”

Psychometric properties of an instrument to measure family disease management

“…This provides an appropriate statistical framework to evaluate psychometric properties where there is a clear idea of the scale dimensionality and specific hypotheses that relate indicators and latent dimensions ( Batista-Foguet, Coenders, & Alonso, 2004 ). In fact, there are precedents for using this technique in both validating new scales ( Carlos & Rodrigues, 2015 ) and transcultural adaption of scales ( Malegiannaki, Metallidou, & Kiosseoglou, 2015 ). Different factor solutions were tested, a first formula with 30 items characterized by a one-dimensional construct (family disease management), a second formula with 30 items characterized by three first-order factors (support, normalization, and participation) and one second-order factor (family disease management), and a third formula with 29 items characterized by three first-order factors (support, normalization, and participation) and one second-order factor (family disease management).…”

Νευρογνωστικοί Υποτύποι Της Αναπτυξιακής Δυσλεξίας

“…Manly et al, 2002. Manly, Robertson, Anderson, & Nimmo-Smith, 1999 το οποίο έχει σταθμιστεί στην ελληνική γλώσσα (Malegiannaki, Metallidou, & Kiosseoglou, 2015) και αξιολογεί την οπτικο-χωρική προσοχή (Menghini et al, 2010).…”