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- Title
Measurement Equivalence across Child Self-Reports and Parent-Proxy Reports in the Chinese Version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Version 4.0.
- Authors
Lin, Chung-Ying; Luh, Wei-Ming; Cheng, Chung-Ping; Yang, Ai-Lun; Su, Chia-Ting; Ma, Hui-Ing
- Abstract
An important assumption for comparing children's quality of life (QoL) between children's and parents' perceptions is that measurement equivalence/invariance (ME/I) exists. The ME/I across the child- and parent-reported Chinese PedsQL was examined, and the latent means between child self-reports and parent-proxy reports were compared. Third-grade to sixth-grade children (n = 519) and their parents (n = 270) respectively completed the child- and parent-reported PedsQL. Seventy-eight parents completed parent-proxy reports twice. Full ME/I across child and parent reports was found in first- and second-order factor loadings. Partial ME/I was supported in item intercepts and item residual variances. The latent means of child self-reports and of parent-proxy reports were not significantly different, which suggested interchangeability between child- and parent-reported PedsQL. The ME/I results support the use of PedsQL scores to compare children's and parents' perceptions of children's QoL.
- Subjects
QUALITY of life; SELF-evaluation; CHILD psychology research; PSYCHOLOGY of parents; HUMAN ecology; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 2013, Vol 44, Issue 5, p583
- ISSN
0009-398X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10578-012-0352-8