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Assessing Functional Impairment in Youth: Development of the Adolescent Life Interference Scale for Internalizing Symptoms (ALIS-I)
- Source :
- Child Psychiatry & Human Development. 54:508-519
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- This study described the psychometric properties of a self-report measure of functional impairment related to anxiety and depression in adolescents, the Adolescent Life Interference Scale for Internalizing symptoms (ALIS-I). A clinical sample of 266 adolescents and a community sample of 63 adolescents, aged 11 to 18 years (Mean = 14.7, SD = 1.71) completed the ALIS-I and additional measures assessing internalizing problems. Exploratory factor analyses indicated four distinct but correlated factors of life interference related to personal withdrawal/avoidance, peer problems, problems with study/work, and somatic symptoms. Reliability and retest reliability (8–12 weeks) of the total score were high and psychometric properties of the subscales were acceptable. The ALIS-I effectively discriminated between clinical and community control groups, and expected correlations were shown between ALIS-I subscales and other related symptom measures. The ALIS-I is a promising instrument for the assessment of functional impairment related to internalizing disorders in youth.
- Subjects :
- Functional impairment
Psychometrics
Community control
Psychiatry and Mental health
Scale (social sciences)
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Anxiety
medicine.symptom
Positive Youth Development
Psychology
Reliability (statistics)
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15733327 and 0009398X
- Volume :
- 54
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Child Psychiatry & Human Development
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........1c5a450cf1aa6be80f88f2a0a7b3c84a