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Liu J, DiStefano C, Burgess Y, Wang J. Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT 2020. [DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
Abstract
Abstract. The Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17 (PSC-17) is a screener designed to measure children’s behavioral and emotional problems. The measurement invariance of the scale’s higher-order factor structure was investigated in the current study. Gender invariance was established through a series of tests for configural invariance (baseline model), metric invariance, scalar invariance, residual variance invariance of items, higher-order factor loadings invariance, intercepts invariance of first-order factors, disturbances invariance of first-order factors, and factor variance invariance of a higher-order factor. The latent mean difference of the higher-order factor indicates that boys exhibited more problems with a strong effect size ( d = .870). As invariance holds, the PSC-17 may be an option to identify preschool children’s behavioral and emotional problems in Response to Intervention programs in school-based settings.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jin Liu
- Department of Educational Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Department of Educational Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
| | - Yin Burgess
- Department of Educational Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
| | - Jiandong Wang
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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