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Assessing the Utility of a Demand Assessment for Functional Analysis
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Roscoe, Eileen M.; Rooker, Griffin W.; Pence, Sacha T.; Longworth, Lynlea J. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2009
We evaluated the utility of an assessment for identifying tasks for the functional analysis demand condition with 4 individuals who had been diagnosed with autism. During the demand assessment, a therapist presented a variety of tasks, and observers measured problem behavior and compliance to identify demands associated with low levels of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Probability, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Evaluation
Comparing Revictimization in Two Groups of Marginalized Women
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Tusher, Chantal Poister; Cook, Sarah L. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This study examines physical and sexual revictimization in a random sample of incarcerated and poor, urban, nonincarcerated women using multiple measures of physical and sexual child abuse. Researchers used hierarchical logistic regression to compare rates of revictimization and the strength of the association between child abuse and adult…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Females, Probability
Assessment of Dysregulated Children Using the Child Behavior Checklist: A Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve Analysis
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Althoff, Robert R.; Ayer, Lynsay A.; Rettew, David C.; Hudziak, James J. – Psychological Assessment, 2010
Disorders of self-regulatory behavior are common reasons for referral to child and adolescent clinicians. Here, the authors sought to compare 2 methods of empirically based assessment of children with problems in self-regulatory behavior. Using parental reports on 2,028 children (53% boys) from a U.S. national probability sample of the Child…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Child Behavior, Measures (Individuals)
CBCL Clinical Scales Discriminate ADHD Youth with Structured-Interview Derived Diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
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Biederman, Joseph; Ball, Sarah W.; Monuteaux, Michael C.; Kaiser, Roselinde; Faraone, Stephen V. – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2008
Objective: To evaluate the association between the clinical scales of the child behavior checklist (CBCL) and the comorbid diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) in a large sample of youth with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Method: The sample consisted of 101 girls and 106 boys ages 6 to 17 with ADHD. Conditional…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Youth, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders
Everyday Marital Conflict and Child Aggression
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Cummings, E. Mark; Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Papp, Lauren M. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2004
Children's immediate aggressive responding to exposure to marital conflict was examined. Participants were 108 families with 8- to 16-year-old children (53 boys, 55 girls), with diary records of children's reactions to marital conflict in the home completed by 103 mothers (n = 578 records) and 95 fathers (n = 377 records) during a 15-day period.…
Descriptors: Probability, Logical Thinking, Behavior Problems, Mothers
Discrete-Time Survival Mixture Analysis
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Muthen, Bengt; Masyn, Katherine – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2005
This article proposes a general latent variable approach to discrete-time survival analysis of nonrepeatable events such as onset of drug use. It is shown how the survival analysis can be formulated as a generalized latent class analysis of event history indicators. The latent class analysis can use covariates and can be combined with the joint…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Computer Software, Aggression