TY - JOUR
T1 - Capturing age-group differences and developmental change with the BASC parent rating scales
AU - Barbot, Baptiste
AU - Hein, Sascha
AU - Luthar, Suniya
AU - Grigorenko, Elena L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The preparation of this manuscript was supported by NIDA DA010726 , and R01-DA14385 (PI: Luthar). We thank Macrina Cooper-White and Kristen Piering for editorial assistance, as well as two anonymous reviewers for valuable suggestions.
Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - Estimation of age-group differences and intra-individual change across distinct developmental periods is often challenged by the use of age-appropriate (but non-parallel) measures. We present a short version of the Behavior Assessment System (Reynolds & Kamphaus, 1998) Parent Rating Scales for Children (PRS-C) and Adolescents (PRS-A), which uses only their common-items to derive estimates of the initial constructs optimized for developmental studies. Measurement invariance of a three-factor model (Externalizing, Internalizing, Adaptive Skills) was tested across age-groups (161 mothers using PRS-C; 200 mothers using PRS-A) and over time (115 mothers using PRS-C at baseline and PRS-A five years later) with the original versus short PRS. Results indicated that the short PRS holds a sufficient level of invariance for a robust estimation of age-group differences and intra-individual change, as compared to the original PRS, which held only weak invariance leading to flawed developmental inferences. The importance of test-content parallelism for developmental studies is discussed.
AB - Estimation of age-group differences and intra-individual change across distinct developmental periods is often challenged by the use of age-appropriate (but non-parallel) measures. We present a short version of the Behavior Assessment System (Reynolds & Kamphaus, 1998) Parent Rating Scales for Children (PRS-C) and Adolescents (PRS-A), which uses only their common-items to derive estimates of the initial constructs optimized for developmental studies. Measurement invariance of a three-factor model (Externalizing, Internalizing, Adaptive Skills) was tested across age-groups (161 mothers using PRS-C; 200 mothers using PRS-A) and over time (115 mothers using PRS-C at baseline and PRS-A five years later) with the original versus short PRS. Results indicated that the short PRS holds a sufficient level of invariance for a robust estimation of age-group differences and intra-individual change, as compared to the original PRS, which held only weak invariance leading to flawed developmental inferences. The importance of test-content parallelism for developmental studies is discussed.
KW - BASC
KW - Developmental change
KW - Measurement invariance
KW - Parent rating scale
KW - Scale parallelism
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U2 - 10.1016/j.appdev.2014.04.003
DO - 10.1016/j.appdev.2014.04.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84904680186
SN - 0193-3973
VL - 35
SP - 294
EP - 303
JO - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
IS - 4
ER -