Measurement equivalence of the KINDL questionnaire across child self-reports and parent proxy-reports: A comparison between item response theory and ordinal logistic regression

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 369-376

  Jafari, Peyman ^a   Sharafi, Zahra ^a   Bagheri, Zahra ^a   Shalileh, Sara ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Children; Differential item functioning; Parents; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARENT; PROXY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS; PROXY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84898890288     PISSN: 0009398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-013-0407-5     Document Type: Article

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