title: Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and structural invariance with age of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF)--French version.
abstract: The parent and teacher forms of the French version of the Behavioral Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) were used to evaluate executive function in everyday life in a large sample of healthy children (N = 951) aged between 5 and 18. Several psychometric methods were applied, with a view to providing clinicians with tools for score interpretation. The parent and teacher forms of the BRIEF were acceptably reliable. Demographic variables (such as age and gender) were found to influence the BRIEF scores. Confirmatory factor analysis was then used to test five competing models of the BRIEF's latent structure. Two of these models (a three-factor model and a two-factor model, both based on a nine-scale structure) had a good fit. However, structural invariance with age was only obtained with the two-factor model. The French version of the BRIEF provides a useful measure of everyday executive function and can be recommended for use in clinical research and practice.
authors.affiliation: a Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition (LPNC) , Université de Savoie , Chambéry , France.
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fournet
authors.forename: Jean-Luc
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Roulin
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Monnier
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Atzeni
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Cosnefroy
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Le Gall
authors.forename: Arnaud
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010290:Parents; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: BRIEF; Development; Executive function; Measurement invariance; Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis