Confirmatory factor analytic structure and measurement invariance of quantitative autistic traits measured by the Social Responsiveness Scale-2

• Published in: Autism : the international journal of research and practice Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 31 - 44
• Main Authors: Frazier, Thomas W, Ratliff, Kristin R, Gruber, Chris, Zhang, Yi, Law, Paul A, Constantino, John N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2014
• Subjects: Adult; Adults; Age Differences; Asperger Syndrome - psychology; Autism; Autistic Disorder - psychology; Autistic spectrum disorders; Case-Control Studies; Child; Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - psychology; Children; Confirmatory factor analysis; Correlation; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual; Emotions; Factor Analysis; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Factor Structure; Female; Gender Differences; Goodness of Fit; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Measurement; Measures (Individuals); Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Psychometrics - instrumentation; Recognition (Psychology); Regression Analysis; Repetitive behaviour; Responsiveness; Self Report; Siblings; Social Behavior; Social Perception; Statistical Analysis; Surveys and Questionnaires; pervasive developmental disorder; Asperger syndrome; factor structure; autism

Understanding the factor structure of autistic symptomatology is critical to the discovery and interpretation of causal mechanisms in autism spectrum disorder. We applied confirmatory factor analysis and assessment of measurement invariance to a large (N = 9635) accumulated collection of reports on...