Investigating the measurement properties of the Social Responsiveness Scale in preschool children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 860-868

  Duku, Eric ^a   Vaillancourt, Tracy ^b   Szatmari, Peter ^a   Georgiades, Stelios ^a   Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie ^c   Smith, Isabel M ^d   Bryson, Susan ^d   Fombonne, Eric ^e   Mirenda, Pat ^f   Roberts, Wendy ^g   Volden, Joanne ^c   Waddell, Charlotte ^h   Thompson, Ann ^a   Bennett, Teresa ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Confirmatory factor analysis; Measurement; Rasch analyses; Social Responsiveness Scale; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASCH ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS SCALE;

CANADA; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84879462476     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-012-1627-4     Document Type: Article

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