TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychometrics of a self-report version of the child and adolescent dispositions scale
AU - Lahey, Benjamin B.
AU - Rathouz, Paul J.
AU - Applegate, Brooks
AU - Tackett, Jennifer L.
AU - Waldman, Irwin D.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by National Institute of Mental Health grants U01-MH54281, R01-MH53554, and R01-MH59111 to Benjamin B. Lahey and K01-MH01818 to Irwin D. Waldman. The senior author is grateful to Jon Shaw for engendering an interest many years ago in the key role played by empathy in the development of child and adolescent psychopathology.
PY - 2010/5
Y1 - 2010/5
N2 - Lahey and Waldman (2003, 2005) proposed a model in which three dispositions- sympathetic response to others; negative emotional response to threat, frustration, and loss; and positive response to novelty and risk-transact with the environment to influence risk for conduct disorder (CD). To test this model, the Child and Adolescent Dispositions Scale (CADS) was developed to measure these dispositions using parent ratings of the child. Here we report psychometric evaluations of a parallel youth self-report version (CADS-Y). Exploratory factor analysis of CADS-Y items among 8329- to 17-year-olds yielded a 3-factor structure that was consistent with the model and invariant across sex and informants. In 1,582 pairs of 9- to 17-year-old twins, confirmatory factor analyses supported the CADS-Y 3-factor model. Each CADS-Y dimension was associated with CD and related personality dimensions as predicted.
AB - Lahey and Waldman (2003, 2005) proposed a model in which three dispositions- sympathetic response to others; negative emotional response to threat, frustration, and loss; and positive response to novelty and risk-transact with the environment to influence risk for conduct disorder (CD). To test this model, the Child and Adolescent Dispositions Scale (CADS) was developed to measure these dispositions using parent ratings of the child. Here we report psychometric evaluations of a parallel youth self-report version (CADS-Y). Exploratory factor analysis of CADS-Y items among 8329- to 17-year-olds yielded a 3-factor structure that was consistent with the model and invariant across sex and informants. In 1,582 pairs of 9- to 17-year-old twins, confirmatory factor analyses supported the CADS-Y 3-factor model. Each CADS-Y dimension was associated with CD and related personality dimensions as predicted.
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U2 - 10.1080/15374411003691784
DO - 10.1080/15374411003691784
M3 - Article
C2 - 20419576
AN - SCOPUS:77951740969
SN - 1537-4416
VL - 39
SP - 351
EP - 361
JO - Journal of clinical child psychology
JF - Journal of clinical child psychology
IS - 3
ER -