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CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST
Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 243-258Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2019.1571634
Keywords
Executive function; attention; self-regulation; rating scales; exploratory factor analysis; confirmatory factor analysis
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- NICHD NIH HHS [U54 HD079123] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R03 MH111965] Funding Source: Medline
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Objective: The BRIEF2 is the recent revision of a frequently employed measure of executive behaviors; however, no research has yet addressed the validity of the new measure's theoretical design. Method: The present study examined the factor structure of the BRIEF2 in 5212 clinically referred youth (66% male, 5-18 years) via exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory (CFA) factor analyses of item-level responses. Results: Results from the EFA suggested the BRIEF2 has fewer factors than would be suggested by the nine theoretically derived scales. While the theoretical CFA model, that omitted item-level information, demonstrated the best fit, when the item-level information was employed there was a decrement in model fit statistics and several extremely high loadings suggested scale-level redundancy in measurement. When the scales were omitted, and the items were loaded directly onto the indices, there was very little change in item-level factor loadings. Conclusions: Findings suggest fewer than nine scales are needed and that clinical interpretation of the BRIEF2 may be more appropriate at the index, rather than scale, level.
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