ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2020
ADHD Parent and Teacher Symptom Ratings: Differential Item Functioning across Gender, Age, Race, and Ethnicity.
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- Sex Bias in the Clinical Diagnosis of ADHD: A Critical Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Boys Score Higher Everywhere? Gender Differences in Parent-Reported ADHD Symptoms Across Age Groups and Four Countries.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
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- Exploring the Intersection of ADHD and Music: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Systematic Integration of Multi-Informant Externalizing Ratings in Clinical Settings.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- The Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in the Conduct Disorder Literature: A Time-Sensitive Review.Psychiatric research and clinical practice · 2024Review
- Data-Driven Methods for Predicting ADHD Diagnosis and Related Impairment: The Potential of a Machine Learning Approach.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents with autism and ADHD.Psychology in the schools · 2023Article
- Psychosocial Interventions for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by the CADDRA Guidelines Work GROUP.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- What's race got to do with it? Informant rating discrepancies in neuropsychological evaluations for children with ADHD.The Clinical neuropsychologist · 2022Article
- Do Parent and Teacher Ratings of ADHD Reflect the Same Constructs? A Measurement Invariance Analysis.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2021Article
- Longitudinal attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptom networks in childhood and adolescence: Key symptoms, stability, and predictive validity.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Parent and teacher ratings of the two attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptom dimensions (i.e., inattention, hyperactivity-impulsivity) have been found to differ across child gender, age, race, and ethnicity. Group differences could be due to actual variation in symptomatic behaviors but also could be due to measurement items functioning differently based on child characteristics. This study extended prior investigations establishing measurement invariance at the symptom dimension and item levels, by examining possible measurement variance across child demographic characteristics at the item level (i.e., differential item functioning [DIF]) in two large national samples. Using the Rasch rating scale model (Andrich Psychometrika, 43, 561-73, 1978), we examined DIF of the 18 ADHD symptoms in samples of 2079 children (n = 1037 males) from 5 to 17 years old (M = 10.7; SD = 3.8) rated by parents and 1070 children (n = 535 males) aged from 5 to 17 years old (M = 11.5; SD = 3.5) rated by teachers. All but six ADHD symptom items showed DIF across child age, gender, race (Black vs. White), and ethnicity with more items showing DIF for age than for gender, race, or ethnicity. For child gender and age, more items showed DIF for parent than for teacher ratings. More items showed DIF across racial groups for teacher than for parent ratings. Only two parent- and teacher-rated items showed DIF for ethnicity. Implications of findings for practice, research, and future iterations of ADHD diagnostic criteria are discussed.
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