Department of Secondary and Middle Grades Education.
Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon.
Psychol Assess. 2018 Feb;30(2):231-240. doi: 10.1037/pas0000469. Epub 2017 Mar 16.
The Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BESS; Kamphaus & Reynolds, 2007) is used by U.S. schools to screen students for behavioral and emotional risks. The BESS comprises a student form, a teacher form, and a parent form. We explored the factor structure of the BESS Student Form among high school students and evaluated measurement invariance by gender using multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis. The results suggested that the BESS Student Form has a 5-factor structure and holds to partial invariance by gender. The partial invariance model revealed 5 items that functioned differentially. These item-level findings suggest that female and male adolescents have different perspectives about their relationships with their parents, self-esteem, self-reliance, and atypicality. The implications of our study are twofold: The BESS Student Form might be used with female and male adolescents in its current form, but the analysis of the data suggested that possible changes be made in the item content during the next revision. (PsycINFO Database Record
行为和情绪筛查系统（BESS；Kamphaus & Reynolds，2007）被美国学校用于筛查学生的行为和情绪风险。BESS 包括学生表格、教师表格和家长表格。我们探讨了高中生 BESS 学生表格的因素结构，并使用多组验证性因素分析评估了性别上的测量不变性。结果表明，BESS 学生表格具有 5 因素结构，并且在性别上具有部分不变性。部分不变性模型显示了 5 项功能不同的项目。这些项目层面的发现表明，女性和男性青少年对他们与父母的关系、自尊心、自立和非典型性有不同的看法。我们研究的意义有两个方面：BESS 学生表格可以在当前形式下用于女性和男性青少年，但数据分析表明，在下一次修订时，项目内容可能需要进行更改。
