A critical evaluation of the p-factor literature

AL Watts, AL Greene, W Bonifay, EI Fried - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2024 - nature.com
The p-factor is a construct that is thought to explain and maybe even cause variation in all
forms of psychopathology. Since its 'discovery'in 2012, hundreds of studies have been …

Introduction to the special issue. A dozen years of demonstrating that informant discrepancies are more than measurement error: Toward guidelines for integrating …

A De Los Reyes, CC Epkins - Journal of Clinical Child & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Validly characterizing youth mental health phenomena requires evidence-based
approaches to assessment. An evidence-based assessment cannot rely on a “gold …

Why full, partial, or approximate measurement invariance are not a prerequisite for meaningful and valid group comparisons

A Robitzsch, O Lüdtke - Structural Equation Modeling: A …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
It is frequently stated in the literature that measurement invariance is a prerequisite for the
comparison of group means or standard deviations of the latent variable in factor models …

Editorial Statement About JCCAP's 2023 Special Issue on Informant Discrepancies in Youth Mental Health Assessments: Observations, Guidelines, and Future …

A De Los Reyes, CC Epkins… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Child and Adolescent Psychology (JCCAP) included a Special Section about the use of
multi-informant approaches to measure child and adolescent (ie, hereafter referred to …

The operations triad model and youth mental health assessments: Catalyzing a paradigm shift in measurement validation

A De Los Reyes, M Wang, MD Lerner… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Researchers strategically assess youth mental health by soliciting reports from multiple
informants. Typically, these informants (eg, parents, teachers, youth themselves) vary in the …

Advancing equity in access to school mental health through multiple informant decision-making

N von der Embse, A De Los Reyes - Journal of School Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
There has been a substantial increase in the number of students with mental health needs,
yet significant discrepancies exist in access to timely intervention. Traditional gatekeeping to …

Robust caregiver-youth discrepancies in irritability ratings on the affective reactivity index: An investigation of its origins

A Mallidi, T Meza-Cervera, K Kircanski… - Journal of affective …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective The Affective Reactivity Index (ARI) is widely used to assess young
people's irritability symptoms, but youth and caregivers often diverge in their assessments …

Integrating multi-informant reports of youth mental health: A construct validation test of Kraemer and Colleagues'(2003) Satellite Model

NR Charamut, SJ Racz, M Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Accurately assessing youth mental health involves obtaining reports from multiple
informants who typically display low levels of correspondence. This low correspondence …

Why measurement invariance is not necessary for valid group comparisons

A Robitzsch, O Lüdtke - 2022 - osf.io
Measurement invariance is an important topic in the psychometric literature of group
comparison in confirmatory factor analysis. It is frequently stated in the literature that …

Evidence-based assessment in special education research: advancing the use of evidence in assessment tools and empirical processes

E Talbott, A De Los Reyes, DM Kearns… - Exceptional …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Evidence-based assessment (EBA) requires that investigators employ scientific theories and
research findings to guide decisions about what domains to measure, how and when to …