Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2-2005
Journal / Book Title
Educational and Psychological Measurement
Abstract
This study tested the longitudinal factorial invariance of a theoretically consistent, higher-order model for Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression (CES-D) scores among adolescent girls and boys in middle school. Data were collected from 2,416 adolescents who completed a survey containing the CES-D in the fall of 1998, spring of 1999, and spring of 2000. The invariance analyses were conducted using LISREL 8.50 with maximum likelihood estimation and the Satorra-Bentler scaled chi-square statistic and standard errors. The higher-order model demonstrated longitudinal, as well as gender, invariance of the overall factor structure and first- and second-order structure coefficients, first-order factor variances, second-order factor variances, and covariances, and item uniquenesses. The results demonstrate that meaningful comparisons of composite CES-D scores can be made across time among girls and boys in middle school.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164404266256
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Motl, Robert W.; Dishman, Rod K.; Birnbaum, Amanda; and Lytle, Leslie A., "Longitudinal Invariance of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale among Girls and Boys in Middle School" (2005). Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works. 177.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/public-health-facpubs/177
Published Citation
Motl, Robert W., Rod K. Dishman, Amanda S. Birnbaum, and Leslie A. Lytle. "Longitudinal invariance of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale among girls and boys in middle school." Educational and Psychological Measurement 65, no. 1 (2005): 90-108. Harvard
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