Testing gender differential item functioning for ordinal and binary scored parent rated ADHD symptoms

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 733-742

  Gomez, Rapson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

ADHD symptoms; Gender DIF; Ordinal and binary scoring methods; Ordinal logistic regression method

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845474953     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.08.011     Document Type: Article

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