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Raymond C.K. Chan, Li Wang, Jiawen Ye, Winnie W.Y. Leung, Monica Y.K. Mok, A psychometric study of the Test of Everyday Attention for Children in the Chinese setting, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, Volume 23, Issue 4, July 2008, Pages 455–466, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acn.2008.03.007
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Abstract
To explore the psychometric properties of the Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch) in the context of a Chinese setting.
Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to examine the construct validity of the Chinese version of the TEA-Ch among a group of 232 children without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Test–retest reliability was tested on a random sub-sample of 20 children at a 4-week interval. Clinical discrimination was also examined by comparing children with and without ADHD (22 in each group) on the performances of the TEA-Ch.
The current Chinese sample demonstrated a three-factor solution for attentional performance among children without ADHD, namely selective attention, executive control/switch, and sustained attention (χ2(24)=34.56; RMSEA=.044; p=.075). Moreover, the whole test demonstrated acceptable test–retest reliability at a 4-week interval among a small sub-sample. Children with ADHD performed significantly more poorly than healthy controls in most of the subtests of the TEA-Ch.
The results of the present study demonstrate that the test items remain useful in China, a culture very different from that in which the test originated. Finally, the TEA-Ch also presents several advantages when compared to other conventional objective measures of attention.
