Abstract #301456

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301456
Activity Number: 342
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 : 9:00 AM to 10:50 AM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Abstract - #301456
Title: Measurement Invariance in Parental Reports of Child Symptomatology: Comparing Parents With and Without Psychopathology
Author(s): Adam C. Carle*+
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau
Address: Statistical Research Division, Washington, DC, 20233-9100,
Keywords: measurement invariance ; confirmatory factor analysis ; psychopathology ; alcoholism ; child psychopathology
Abstract:

Studies examining the effects of psychopathology on children routinely rely on parent's report of child symptomatology. However, parental psychopathology may differentially affect the measurement properties of instruments. The current study used data from an ongoing longitudinal study to examine invariance in an adapted measure of adolescent symptomatology across parental psychopathology. Analyses examined the relation of five scale scores to two factors in a sample of alcoholic and non-alcoholic fathers (n=356). Alcoholism was directly assessed with a computerized DIS. Adolescent symptomatology was measured by a subset of 74 items adapted from the Child Behavior Checklist. Items were selected and adapted for inclusion in the original study based on their age appropriateness and relevance to the broader topic. A series of hierarchical, confirmatory factor analyses suggested a two-factor, congeneric model, equating factor loadings and uniquenesses, fit the data well. The model full measurement invariance model was rejected. Results suggested that parental psychopathology may not affect the reliability of a measure's rank orderings, but may affect other measurement properties.

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