Measurement Invariance of Neuropsychological Tests in Diverse Older Persons

Neuropsychology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 260-269

  Mungas, Dan ^a   Widaman, Keith F ^b   Reed, Bruce R ^c   Tomaszewski Farias, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Veterans Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

English; Ethnicity; Measurement equivalence; Neuropsychological assessment; Spanish

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CAUCASIAN; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; EPISODIC MEMORY; ETHNICITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPANISH AND ENGLISH NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT SCALES; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORKING MEMORY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 79952596826     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: 19311559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021090     Document Type: Article

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