APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Child Behavior Checklist: Measurement Invariance Across Maternal and Paternal Reports

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session

  • Johanna Nielsen
    Temple University
  • Christina Cerra
    Temple University
  • Daniel Klein
    Stony Brook University, The State University of New York
  • Thomas Olino
    Temple University

Abstract

An examination of measurement invariance across maternal and paternal reports of child symptoms on the preschool Child Behavior Checklist was conducted. Changes in model fit indices indicate that configural and metric, but not scalar, invariance, are present across parent reports, and suggest that parents report child symptoms at different thresholds.

Psychometrics

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