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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dittman, Cassandra K.
• Burke, Kylie
• Haslam, Divna
• Ralph, Alan

Titel

Assessing Adolescent Functioning from Different Perspectives: Extending the Validation of the Adolescent Functioning Scale (AFS)

Ist Teil von

• Child psychiatry and human development, 2024-04, Vol.55 (2), p.541-551

Ort / Verlag

New York: Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The study aimed to provide further evidence for the validity of the 33-item Adolescent Functioning Scale (AFS) as a parent- and adolescent-report scale of adolescent adjustment. In separate samples of parents ( N  = 542; 88% female) and adolescents ( N  = 303; 60% female), confirmatory factor analyses supported the original 4-factor structure of the AFS. Analyses produced a 28-item parent measure, and a 27-item adolescent measure. Parent and adolescent versions included positive development, oppositional behaviour, antisocial behaviour and emotional problems subscales. Evidence for convergent and construct validity was provided through correlations with existing measures of adolescent functioning and parenting. The AFS demonstrated configural and metric invariance, but not scalar variance. The study provided support for the validity and reliability of the revised AFS for parents and adolescents. The strong psychometric properties, and brief and multi-dimensional nature of the AFS means that it will have utility in research and applied contexts.