The Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS): Measurement and structural invariance across four language groups.

Gygi, Jasmin T.; Ledermann, Thomas; Grob, Alexander; Rudaz, Myriam; Hagmann-von Arx, Priska (2018). The Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS): Measurement and structural invariance across four language groups. Journal of psychoeducational assessment, 37(5), pp. 590-602. Sage 10.1177/0734282918780565

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The Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS) measures general intelligence and its two main components, verbal and nonverbal intelligence, each comprising of two subtests. The RIAS has been recently standardized in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, and Spain. Using the standardization samples of the U.S. (n = 2,438), Danish (n = 983), German (n = 2,103), and Spanish (n = 1,933) versions of the RIAS, this study examined measurement invariance across these four language groups for a single-factor structure, an oblique two-factor structure with a verbal and nonverbal factor, and a bifactor structure with a general, a verbal, and a nonverbal factor. Single-group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported the oblique two-factor and bifactor structure for each language group but not the single-factor structure. The bifactor analysis revealed that the general factor accounted for the largest proportion of common variance in each language group, while the amount of variance accounted for by the two specific factors was small and their reliabilities low. Multiplegroup CFA supported scalar invariance in both, the oblique two-factor and bifactor structure.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
UniBE Contributor:	Rudaz, Myriam
ISSN:	0734-2829
Publisher:	Sage
Language:	English
Submitter:	Myriam Rudaz
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2018 17:50
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:18
Publisher DOI:	10.1177/0734282918780565
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/120142