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Measurement Equivalence Across Racial/Ethnic Groups of the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire for Childhood Depression

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JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 3, Pages 353-367

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SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-011-9569-4

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MFQ; IRT; DIF; Depression; Measurement equivalence

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As research continues to document differences in the prevalence of mental health problems such as depression across racial/ethnic groups, the issue of measurement equivalence becomes increasingly important to address. The Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ) is a widely used screening tool for child and adolescent depression. This study applied a differential item functioning (DIF) framework to data from a sample of 6th and 8th grade students in the Seattle Public School District (N=3,593) to investigate the measurement equivalence of the MFQ. Several items in the MFQ were found to have DIF, but this DIF was associated with negligible individual-or group-level impact. These results suggest that differences in MFQ scores across groups are unlikely to be caused by measurement non-equivalence.

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