Factor Structure of the Serbian Version of the Children's Communication Checklist-2

Autor/inn/en	Glumbic, Nenad; Brojcin, Branislav
Titel	Factor Structure of the Serbian Version of the Children's Communication Checklist-2
Quelle	In: Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 33 (2012) 5, S.1352-1359 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0891-4222
DOI	10.1016/j.ridd.2012.03.010
Schlagwörter	Factor Structure; Check Lists; Foreign Countries; Factor Analysis; Test Reliability; Children; Adolescents; Communication Problems; Monolingualism; Kindergarten; Elementary School Students; Secondary School Students; Structural Linguistics; Pragmatics; Serbia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Faktorenstruktur; Checkliste; Ausland; Faktorenanalyse; Testreliabilität; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Kommunikationsbarriere; Sekundarschüler; Pragmalinguistik; Serbien
Abstract	Keeping in mind that traditional tests were largely insensitive to pragmatic impairment, Bishop (2003) created a second version of the "Children's Communication Checklist" (CCC-2) in order to identify pragmatic deficits in children with communication problems. Unfortunately, it was revealed that certain subscales of the Serbian version of the CCC-2 have unacceptably low internal consistency. Because dividing the test into original subscales did not apply for the Serbian population, the aim of this paper was to determine the factor structure of the CCC-2. The sample consisted of 1344 typically developing, monolingual participants of both sexes, aged from 4 to 17 (M = 9.52; SD = 2.72). Participants were recruited from three statistical regions in Serbia. All participants attended regular kindergarten, elementary or secondary schools. CCC-2 factor analysis was determined by using the principal component method, with Varimax rotation of principal axes. A factor analysis showed that the CCC-2 had three factors (General Communication Ability, Pragmatics and Structural Language Aspects), which accounted for 29.39% of the total variance. A three-factor solution should be further confirmed in the course of a clinical validation of the CCC-2. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10