Structural invariance of General Behavior Inventory (GBI) scores in Black and White young adults.

Pendergast, Laura L.; Youngstrom, Eric A.; Brown, Christopher W.; Jensen, Dane; Abramson, Lyn Y.; Alloy, Lauren B.

doi:10.1037/pas0000020

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“…A partially invariant model may be obtained if some, but not all, items are invariant on each element of the factor structure across groups (Byrne, 2010). The hypothesis of invariance is evaluated by comparing the model fit of the more restrictive model to the less restrictive model, with hypothesis of invariance being rejected when the CFI decreases by .01 or more ( ΔCFI ≥ .01; Pendergast et al, 2015).…”

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Time-varying associations of parent–adolescent cultural conflict and youth adjustment among Chinese American families.

Juang

Hou

Bayless

et al. 2018

Developmental Psychology

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The purpose of this study was to examine time-varying associations of parent-adolescent cultural conflict with depressive symptoms and grade point average (GPA) among Chinese Americans from ages 11-22. We pooled two independently collected longitudinal data sets (N = 760 at Wave 1) and used time-varying effect modeling (TVEM) to show that the frequency of parent-adolescent conflict increased during early adolescence (12 years), peaked at mid adolescence (16 years), and gradually decreased throughout late adolescence and young adulthood. In general, parent-adolescent conflict was associated with negative adjustment (more depressive symptoms and lower GPA) more strongly during mid- to late-adolescence (15 to 17 years) compared with other developmental periods. These time-varying associations differed slightly by gender, at least for GPA. Our findings provide important developmental knowledge of parent-adolescent conflict for Chinese American youth and suggest that attention to conflict and links to adjustment is especially relevant during mid to late adolescence. Our study also illustrates the usefulness of integrative data analysis and TVEM to investigate how the strength of conflict-adjustment associations might change throughout development. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Time-varying associations of parent–adolescent cultural conflict and youth adjustment among Chinese American families.

Juang

Hou

Bayless

et al. 2018

Developmental Psychology

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“…As these measures are translated and used with more diverse populations, it will be important to test whether the psychometrics change across demographic groups. The few studies done in this regard suggest that the measurement properties of depression and hypomania/mania tend to be robust across race and ethnicity (Gamma et al, 2013; Pendergast et al, 2015), and the measures show consistent diagnostic efficiency across race/ethnicity within the United States (Jenkins et al, 2012). This is reassuring, and suggests that the measures are likely to help improve assessment across a range of demographic groups.…”

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Multivariate meta-analysis of the discriminative validity of caregiver, youth, and teacher rating scales for pediatric bipolar disorder: Mother knows best about mania.

Youngstrom¹,

Genzlinger²,

Egerton³

et al. 2015

Archives of Scientific Psychology

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The past 2 decades have seen a rapid increase in the amount of research on bipolar disorder in children and adolescents, including studies that look at the accuracy of symptom checklists as a way of telling if a youth might have bipolar disorder. How accurate are these checklists? Does accuracy change if they are completed by the youth or a teacher instead of the primary caregiver? Are checklists that focus specifically on symptoms of mania more accurate than checklists with more general content—typical of older measures? How much does the performance of checklists change depending on whether the sample only includes youths seeking treatment, versus including a healthy comparison group? We addressed these research questions by systematically reviewing major publication databases (PsycINFO, PubMed, and GoogleScholar) and looking at 4,094 hits based on our search. We looked for studies that reported enough information to (a) estimate the size of the difference in checklist scores (“effect size”) between cases with versus without research diagnoses of bipolar disorder for, (b) youths 18 years of age or younger, and (c) including at least 10 cases with bipolar disorder. Because we wanted to compare caregiver, teacher, and youth report on the same measures, we used a newer statistical technique, multivariate meta-analysis, to combine and compare results within as well as across studies. We found 63 effect sizes from 8 checklists used in 27 separate samples, including 11,941 youths, of whom 1,834 had diagnoses of bipolar disorder. Overall, checklists did a good job separating cases with bipolar from other youths, with an effect size of 1.05, meaning that bipolar cases scored more than a SD higher. Caregiver report was the most accurate across all checklists, performing significantly better than youth or teacher report. Scales focusing on manic symptoms also outperformed general symptom checklists. Sample composition also changed the accuracy of the checklists a great deal: Many studies either included healthy children or excluded youths with diagnoses that are difficult to tell apart from bipolar disorder. These studies gave an overly optimistic sense of how well the checklist might do at identifying youths with bipolar disorder in most clinical settings. Three checklists have shown validity in multiple studies and appear accurate enough to be helpful in improving diagnosis in clinical practice.

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“…To test this, the chi-square difference test (Δχ 2 ) was conducted by using the DIFFTEST command provided by Mplus, and the change in Comparative Fit Index criterion (ΔCFI) was relied upon. Hypothesis of invariance is rejected when Δχ 2 has a probability lower than .05 ( p <.05) and the ΔCFI decreases by .01 or more ( ΔCFI ≥ .01) (Coertjens et al, 2012; Pendergast et al, 2015). The ΔCFI value was weighted more heavily than the Δχ 2 in evaluating change in model fit because chi-square values are more sensitive to sample size and the chi-square difference test tends to be too stringent (Pendergast et al, 2015).…”

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Longitudinal measurement equivalence of subjective language brokering experiences scale in Mexican American adolescents.

Kim¹,

Hou²,

Shen³

et al. 2017

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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Objectives Language brokering occurs frequently in immigrant families and can have significant implications for the well-being of family members involved. The present study aimed to develop and validate a measure that can be used to assess multiple dimensions of subjective language brokering experiences among Mexican American adolescents. Methods Participants were 557 adolescent language brokers (54.2% female, Mage.wave1 =12.96, SD=.94) in Mexican American families. Results Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, we were able to identify seven reliable subscales of language brokering: linguistic benefits, socio-emotional benefits, efficacy, positive parent-child relationships, parental dependence, negative feelings, and centrality. Tests of factorial invariance show that these subscales demonstrate, at minimum, partial strict invariance across time and across experiences of translating for mothers and fathers, and in most cases, also across adolescent gender, nativity, and translation frequency. Thus, in general, the means of the subscales and the relations among the subscales with other variables can be compared across these different occasions and groups. Tests of criterion-related validity demonstrated that these subscales correlated, concurrently and longitudinally, with parental warmth and hostility, parent-child alienation, adolescent family obligation, depressive symptoms, resilience, and life meaning. Conclusions This reliable and valid subjective language brokering experiences scale will be helpful for gaining a better understanding of adolescents’ language brokering experiences with their mothers and fathers, and how such experiences may influence their development.

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Structural invariance of General Behavior Inventory (GBI) scores in Black and White young adults.

Cited by 11 publications

References 89 publications

Time-varying associations of parent–adolescent cultural conflict and youth adjustment among Chinese American families.

Time-varying associations of parent–adolescent cultural conflict and youth adjustment among Chinese American families.

Multivariate meta-analysis of the discriminative validity of caregiver, youth, and teacher rating scales for pediatric bipolar disorder: Mother knows best about mania.

Longitudinal measurement equivalence of subjective language brokering experiences scale in Mexican American adolescents.

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