Title
Assessing development across cultures: Invariance of the Bayley-III scales across seven international MAL-ED sites
Date Issued
01 December 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pendergast L.L.
Schaefer B.A.
Murray-Kolb L.E.
Svensen E.
Shrestha R.
Rasheed M.A.
Scharf R.J.
Maphula A.
Costa H.
Rasmussen Z.A.
Yousafzai A.
Tofail F.
Seidman J.C.
de Burga R.R.
Olotegui M.P.
Pinedo S.R.
Ahmed I.
Alam D.
Ali A.
Bhutta Z.A.
Qureshi S.
Rasheed M.A.
Soofi S.
Turab A.
Zaidi A.K.M.
Bodhidatta L.
Ammu G.
Babji S.
Bose A.
George A.T.
Hariraju D.
Jennifer M.S.
John S.
Kaki S.
Kang G.
Karunakaran P.
Koshy B.
Lazarus R.P.
Muliyil J.
Ragasudha P.
Raghava M.V.
Raju S.
Ramachandran A.
Ramadas R.
Ramanujam K.
Rose A.
Roshan R.
Sharma S.L.
Shanmuga Sundaram E.
Thomas R.J.
Pan W.K.
Ambikapathi R.
Carreon J.D.
Doan V.
Hoest C.
Knobler S.
McCormick B.J.J.
McGrath M.
Miller M.A.
Psaki S.
Rasmussen Z.A.
Richard S.A.
Gottlieb M.
Lang D.R.
Tountas K.H.
Amour C.
Bayyo E.
Mduma E.R.
Mvungi R.
Nshama R.
Pascal J.
Swema B.M.
Yarrot L.
Mason C.J.
Ahmed T.
Ahmed A.M.S.
Haque R.
Haque U.
Hossain M.I.
Islam M.
Mahfuz M.
Mondal D.
Nahar B.
Chandyo R.K.
Shrestha P.S.
Ulak M.
Bauck A.
Black R.
Caulfield L.
Checkley W.
Lee G.
Schulze K.
Yori P.P.
Publisher(s)
American Psychological Association
Abstract
The Bayley's Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-Third Edition (Bayley-III) were used to measure the development of 24-month-old children (N = 1,452) in the Interactions of Malnutrition and Enteric Infections: Consequences for Child Health and Development (MAL-ED) study (an international, multisite study on many aspects of child development). This study examined the factor structure and measurement equivalence/invariance of Bayley-III scores across 7 international research sites located in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, and South Africa. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to identify the factor structure of Bayley-III scores. Subsequently, reliability analyses and item response theory analyses were applied, and invariance was examined using multiple-indicator, multiple-cause modeling. The findings supported the validity, but not invariance, of Bayley-III language scores at all seven sites and of the cognitive and motor scores at six sites. These findings provide support for the use of scores for research purposes, but mean comparison between sites is not recommended.
Start page
604
End page
614
Volume
33
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Pediatría
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85057772294
PubMed ID
Source
School Psychology Quarterly
ISSN of the container
10453830
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