Journal article
Internal and External Validity of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and ADHD Inattention Dimensions with Teacher Ratings of Nepali Children
Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment, Vol.38(3), pp.433-442
09/2016
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/117101
PMCID: PMC6557450
PMID: 31186601
Abstract
The objective was to evaluate the validity of sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) and ADHD-inattention (IN) symptoms in children from Nepal. Teachers rated SCT, ADHD-IN, ADHD-hyperactivity/impulsivity (HI), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), anxiety, depression, academic impairment, social impairment, and peer rejection dimensions in 366 children (50% girls) in first through sixth grades (
M
age
= 9.35,
SD
age
= 1.96) on two separate occasions separated by 4-weeks. Seven of the eight SCT symptoms and all nine ADHD-IN symptoms showed convergent validity (substantial loadings on their respective factors) and discriminant validity (higher loadings on their respective factor than the alternative factor) at both time-points. Across all three separate analyses (assessment 1, assessment 2, and from assessment 1 to assessment 2), higher SCT scores were associated with
lower
ADHD-HI scores and higher depression, academic impairment, and social impairment scores after controlling for ADHD-IN while higher ADHD-IN scores were associated with higher ADHD-HI, ODD, academic impairment, and peer rejection scores after controlling for SCT. Also, as hypothesized, SCT scores were not related to ODD scores after controlling for ADHD-IN. The study provides the first evidence for the internal and external validity of the SCT dimension relative to the ADHD-IN dimension with teacher ratings of children from Nepal, thereby increasing the validity of the SCT construct beyond North America, Western Europe, South America, and South Korea.
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- Title
- Internal and External Validity of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and ADHD Inattention Dimensions with Teacher Ratings of Nepali Children
- Creators
- Girwan Khadka - Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MOG. Leonard Burns - Washington State UniversityStephen P Becker - Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
- Publication Details
- Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment, Vol.38(3), pp.433-442
- Academic Unit
- Psychology, Department of
- Identifiers
- 99900548082401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article