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Confirmatory factor analysis of the supports intensity scale for children
Autor(es)
Materia
Intellectual disability
Support needs assessment
Confirmatory factor analysis
Support intensity scale for children
Fecha de publicación
2016
Editor
Elsevier
Citación
Verdugo, M. A., Guillén, V. M., Arias, B., Vicente, E. & Badia, M. (2016). Confirmatory analysis of the supports intensity scale for children. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 49-50 (2016), 140-152
Resumen
Support needs assessment instruments and recent research related to this construct have
been more focused on adults with intellectual disability than on children. However, the
design and implementation of Individualized Support Plans (ISP) must start at an early age.
Currently, a project for the translation, adaptation and validation of the supports intensity
scale for children (SIS-C) is being conducted in Spain. In this study, the internal structure of
the scale was analyzed to shed light on the nature of this construct when evaluated in
childhood. A total of 814 children with intellectual disability between 5 and 16 years of age
participated in the study. Their support need level was assessed by the SIS-C, and a
confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), including different hypotheses, was carried out to
identify the optimal factorial structure of this scale. The CFA results indicated that a
unidimensional model is not sufficient to explain our data structure. On the other hand,
goodness-of-fit indices showed that both correlated first-order factors and higher-order
factor models of the construct could explain the data obtained from the scale. Specifically,
a better fit of our data with the correlated first-order factors model was found. These
findings are similar to those identified in previous analyses performed with adults.
Implications and directions for further research are discussed
Descripción
Artículo producto de y financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (proyectos de I+D, PSI2012-36278) y por la Junta de Castilla y León (SA120U13)
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0891-4222
DOI
10.1016/j.ridd.2015.11.022
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