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  • Child Psychology
  • Behavioral Science
  • Psychometrics

Background:

  • Aggressive behaviors are often classified as proactive or reactive, with ongoing debate regarding their distinctness.
  • Proactive and reactive aggression may differ in origins, associations, and treatment responses.
  • The Antisocial Behavior Scale (ABS) is used for teacher ratings, but its psychometric properties for parent ratings are unexamined.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the factor structure and convergent/divergent validity of the parent-rated Antisocial Behavior Scale (ABS).
  • To assess the psychometric properties of the ABS for children aged 6-12 with ADHD and severe aggression.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized multidimensional item response theory to confirm the factor structure of the parent-rated ABS.
  • Examined convergent and divergent validity using other parent-report measures.
  • Sample included 168 children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and severe aggression.

Main Results:

  • The proactive and reactive aggression factors were found to be distinct yet moderately correlated.
  • Algorithm items showed acceptable fit to the original factors, while non-algorithm items indicated model misfit.
  • Proactive and reactive aggression demonstrated differential correlates with externalizing symptoms, supporting validity.

Conclusions:

  • The parent-rated ABS demonstrated preliminary evidence of validity and supported the original factor structure.
  • The study suggests that proactive and reactive aggression constructs measured by the ABS may not be entirely distinct from general behavior problems in this clinical sample.
  • Further research is needed to refine the scale and clarify the distinctness of proactive and reactive aggression.