Although several measures that evaluate disturbance in childhood attachment exist, few have been designed to assess attachment disturbances. The Beech Brook Attachment Disorder Checklist (BBADC) is one of the most promising measures of childhood attachment disorder that has been specifically designed to assess attachment disturbances, but further validation of the BBADC is necessary. Confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses and Rasch analysis of the BBADC items were conducted using a sample of adopted children. Exploratory analysis revealed five factors. Items on these factors were then subjected to Rasch analysis to determine unidimensionality of each factor and further refine the factors. Next, confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the five factor solution was a better fit to the data than the original two factor solution. Individual differences in the BBADC factors were examined. Finally, Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) subscales were correlated with the five factors to determine convergent and discriminant validity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-10152009-085718 |
| Date | 15 October 2009 |
| Creators | Howard, Amanda Roberta |
| Contributors | David R Cross |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/msword |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-10152009-085718/ |
| Rights | unrestricted, I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and attached hereto a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis, dissertation, or project report, allowing distribution as specified below. I certify that the version I submitted is the same as that approved by my advisory committee. I hereby grant to TCU or its agents the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible, under the conditions specified below, my thesis, dissertation, or project report in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. I retain all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis, dissertation or project report. I also retain the right to use in future works (such as articles or books) all or part of this thesis, dissertation, or project report. |
Page generated in 0.002 seconds