Funcionamiento diferencial del ítem en la evaluación de la sintomatología TDAH en función del género y el formato de calificación

  1. Benito Arias Martínez
  2. Víctor B. Arias González
  3. Laura Elísabet Gómez Sánchez 1
  4. María Angélica Inmaculada Calleja González
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

Journal:
Universitas psychologica

ISSN: 1657-9267

Year of publication: 2013

Volume: 12

Issue: 3

Pages: 779-796

Type: Article

DOI: 10.11144/JAVERIANA.UPSY12-3.FDIE DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

The aim of this paper was to test the invariance of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms in a sample of 634 children attending to gender. We firstly examined the fit to the data of five models using confirmatory factor analysis, and ordinal logistic regression was used as a method of estimation of both uniform and non-uniform differential item functioning (DIF). The results showed that (a) the three correlated factors model was the best fit model, and (b) there was no gender-specific DIF, either in the ordinal rating form (scale of 1 to 4) or the binary rating form (0-1). These results support that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IVTR does not establish ADHD differential diagnosis criteria for boys and girls.