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  • Adolescent adjustment is a critical area of study in developmental psychology.
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  • The Adolescent Functioning Scale (AFS) is a measure of adolescent adjustment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide further evidence for the validity and reliability of the 33-item Adolescent Functioning Scale (AFS).
  • To evaluate the AFS as both a parent-report and adolescent-report measure.
  • To examine the psychometric properties of a revised AFS.

Main Methods:

  • Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted on separate parent and adolescent samples.
  • The AFS was correlated with existing measures of adolescent functioning and parenting to assess convergent and construct validity.
  • Invariance analyses (configural, metric, scalar) were performed.

Main Results:

  • Confirmatory factor analyses supported the original 4-factor structure for both parent and adolescent reports.
  • Revised measures included 28 items for parents and 27 items for adolescents.
  • Evidence for convergent and construct validity was found, and the AFS demonstrated configural and metric invariance.

Conclusions:

  • The revised Adolescent Functioning Scale (AFS) is a valid and reliable measure for assessing adolescent adjustment.
  • The AFS possesses strong psychometric properties, making it a brief and multi-dimensional tool.
  • The AFS has utility in both research and applied settings for evaluating adolescent functioning.