Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised With Normal and Psychiatric Adolescents

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ID12388986
AuthorsTimothy Anderson (0000-0001-7224-2728, corresponding author), Wallace E Dixon (0000-0002-9260-3348), Jr Wallace E Dixon
Year1995
Volume5
Issue3
Pages319-332
Publication date1995-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Research on Adolescence (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1050-8392 • E-ISSN: 1532-7795
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1207/s15327795jra0503_2
OpenAlexW2048362121
LanguageEN
References cited16

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) has received substantial factor analytic attention. The majority of these studies have been exploratory in nature and have supported Kaufman's (1979) finding of a three-factor solution. The few confirmatory factor analytic studies have provided some support for the three-factor interpretation over the two- and one-factor interpretations, but they have consistently failed to examine other potentially valuable models for the WISC-R. This study tested one, two-, three-, and four-factor models within both normal and psychiatric adolescent inpatient samples. For both samples, the Kaufman three-factor solution emerged with the best overall fit of the WISC-R subtest covariance structure. The remaining models (Guilford-Bannatyne, Bannatyne, Guilford, Horn, and single g) were found to be less applicable to the WISC-R subtest covariance structure and were effectively eliminated as explanatory models when applied to the WISC-R

Cognition · Confirmatory factor analysis · Developmental psychology · Psychiatry · Scale (ratio · Statistics · Structural equation modeling · Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale · Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children · Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life · Clinical Psychology · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · Psychology · Psychometric Methodologies and Testing

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