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Psychometric Properties of the Adaptive Behavior Assessment System- Second Edition with Adults Diagnosed with Intellectual Disability

Holden, Rachel
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1461253948

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2016, Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), Xavier University, Psychology.
The shift in emphasis on adaptive functioning when specifying severity level of Intellectual Disability (ID), as stated in the DSM-5 (APA, 2013), increases the need for reliable and valid adaptive functioning measures for clinicians to utilize during diagnostic evaluations. This study investigated the psychometric properties of a widely-used adaptive functioning measure, the Adaptive Behavior Assessment System- Second Edition, with adults (ABAS-II; Harrison & Oakland, 2003). Participants included 102 adults with ID, ages 18 to 79 years, who resided at a Midwestern developmental center. Test-retest and inter-rater reliability were demonstrated for the ABAS-II General Adaptive Composite (GAC) and domain scores. Additionally, concurrent validity was also demonstrated with the Vineland Adaptive Behavior System- Second Edition (VABS-II) by statistically significant correlations for GAC and domain scores, as well as with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale- Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) and the Stanford Binet- Fifth Edition (SB-V) IQ scores. Past research indicates that comorbid psychiatric disorders and behavior/emotional symptoms impact the adaptive functioning of individuals with ID differently (Di Nuovo & Buono, 2007; Lopata et al., 2012). Therefore, it seemed likely that individuals displaying behavior or emotional problems/symptoms would weaken the reliability of an informant-rated instrument. Although the ABAS-II test-retest reliability coefficients were not significantly different between two groups (individuals who scored above and below the clinical threshold for comorbid behavioral/emotional problems), inter-rater reliability coefficients for the GAC and Practical domain scores were. These findings can be cautiously extended to the recently published ABAS-3 (Harrison & Oakland, 2015) as there is significant overlap between these two editions.
W. Michael Nelson, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Behavioral Psychology; Behavioral Sciences; Clinical Psychology; Psychological Tests; Psychology
intellectual disability; adaptive functioning; adults; Adaptive Behavior Assessment System; psychometric properties; behavioral problems

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  • Holden, R. (2016). Psychometric Properties of the Adaptive Behavior Assessment System- Second Edition with Adults Diagnosed with Intellectual Disability [Doctoral dissertation, Xavier University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1461253948

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Holden, Rachel. Psychometric Properties of the Adaptive Behavior Assessment System- Second Edition with Adults Diagnosed with Intellectual Disability. 2016. Xavier University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1461253948.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Holden, Rachel. "Psychometric Properties of the Adaptive Behavior Assessment System- Second Edition with Adults Diagnosed with Intellectual Disability." Doctoral dissertation, Xavier University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1461253948

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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