School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised: Factorial Invariance and Latent Means Differences across Gender and Age in Spanish Children

Authors

• Carolina Gonzálvez, University of Alicante
• Candido J. Inglés, University of Elche
• Christopher A. Kearney, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
• Maria Vicent, University of Alicante
• Ricardo Sanmartín, University of Alicante
• Jose M. García-Fernández, University of Alicante

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-26-2016

Publication Title

Frontiers in Psychology

Volume

7

First page number:

1

Last page number:

10

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze the factorial invariance and latent means differences of the Spanish version of the School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised for Children (SRAS-R-C) in a sample of 1,078 students (50.8% boys) aged 8-11 years (M = 9.63, SD = 1.12). The results revealed that the proposed model in this study, with a structure of 18 items divided into four factors (Negative Affective, Social Aversion and/or Evaluation, To Pursue Attention and Tangible Reinforcements), was the best-fit model with a tetra-factorial structure, remaining invariant across gender and age. Analysis of latent means differences indicated that boys and 11-year-old students scored highest on the Tangible Reinforcements subscale compared with their 8-and 9-year-old peers. On the contrary, for the subscales of Social Aversion and/or Evaluation and to Pursue Attention, the differences were significant and higher in younger age groups compared to 11-year-olds. Appropriate indexes of reliability were obtained for SRAS-R-C subscales (0.70, 0.79, 0.87, and 0.72). Finally, the founded correlation coefficients of scores of the SRAS-R-C revealed a predictable pattern between school refusal and positive/negative affect and optimism/pessimism. © 2016 Gonzálvez, Inglés, Kearney, Vicent, Sanmartín and García-Fernández.

Keywords

Factorial invariance; Latent means differences; Primary education; School refusal; SRAS-R-C; Validation

Disciplines

Psychology | School Psychology

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307 KB

Language

English

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Repository Citation

Gonzálvez, C., Inglés, C. J., Kearney, C. A., Vicent, M., Sanmartín, R., García-Fernández, J. M. (2016). School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised: Factorial Invariance and Latent Means Differences across Gender and Age in Spanish Children. Frontiers in Psychology, 7 1-10.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02011