Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Research on Social Work Practice
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in Web of Science
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by O’Keefe, M.
Right arrow Articles by Lane, C. J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

An Examination of the Factor Structure for the Youth Self Report on a Multiethnic Population

Maura O’Keefe

University of Southern California, mokeefe{at}usc.edu

Ferol Mennen

University of Southern California

Christianne Joy Lane

University of Southern California

The Youth Self Report (YSR) is a popular and widely used instrument assessing adolescent emotional and behavioral functioning. The goals of the present study were to address some of the limitations of the YSR, to examine its factor structure and equivalence across four racial/ethnic groups, and to determine if another combination of items could accurately represent the constructs Achenbach sought to elucidate in a more parsimonious way. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were utilized with random split-half samples to determine primary and secondary factors. Correlational analyses were then performed to determine the suitability of unit-weight factors as measures of the factors. And to examine the invariance of the short form YSR over ethnic groups, the covariance matrices were compared using structural equation modeling. Results revealed a seven factor scale that is shorter (66 vs. 119 items), is invariant acrossracial/ethnic groups, and has a simple structure. Implications and future directions are discussed.

Key Words: YSR • race/ethnicity measurement invariance • confirmatory factor analysis

Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 16, No. 3, 315-325 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1049731505285340
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Research on Social Work PracticeHome page
M. Hoe and J. Brekke
Testing the Cross-Ethnic Construct Validity of the Brief Symptom Inventory
Research on Social Work Practice, January 1, 2009; 19(1): 93 - 103.
[Abstract] [PDF]