Department of Psychology, LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research, York University, Toronto, ONT, Canada.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2013 Feb;54(2):131-43. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12001. Epub 2012 Oct 11.
Both performance-based and rating measures are commonly used to index executive function in clinical and neuropsychological assessments. They are intended to index the same broad underlying mental construct of executive function. The association between these two types of measures was investigated in the current article.
We examined the association between performance-based and rating measures of executive function in 20 studies. These studies included 13 child and 7 adult samples, which were derived from 7 clinical, 2 nonclinical, and 11 combined clinical and nonclinical samples. Only 68 (24%) of the 286 relevant correlations reported in these studies were statistically significant, and the overall median correlation was only .19.
It was concluded that performance-based and rating measures of executive function assess different underlying mental constructs. We discuss how these two types of measures appear to capture different levels of cognition, namely, the efficiency of cognitive abilities and success in goal pursuit. Clinical implications of using performance-based and rating measures of executive function are discussed, including the use of these measures in assessing ADHD.
在临床和神经心理学评估中，通常同时使用基于表现的测量和评分测量来评估执行功能。它们旨在评估执行功能这一广泛的潜在心理结构。本文研究了这两种类型的测量之间的相关性。
我们在 20 项研究中检验了执行功能的基于表现的测量和评分测量之间的相关性。这些研究包括 13 个儿童样本和 7 个成人样本，分别来自 7 个临床样本、2 个非临床样本和 11 个临床和非临床混合样本。在这些研究报告的 286 个相关相关性中，只有 68 个（24%）具有统计学意义，总体中位数相关性仅为.19。
研究得出结论，基于表现的测量和评分测量的执行功能评估不同的潜在心理结构。我们讨论了这两种类型的测量似乎如何捕捉不同层次的认知，即认知能力的效率和追求目标的成功。讨论了使用基于表现的和评分测量的执行功能的临床意义，包括在评估 ADHD 中使用这些测量。
