Assessing the behavioral aspects of executive functioning across the lifespan: review of rating scales and psychometric derivation of a screener for young adults

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dc.contributor.authorDuggan, Emily C.
dc.contributor.supervisorGarcia-Barrera, Mauricio Alejandro
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-03T20:09:12Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-09-03
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Psychology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractExecutive functioning skills are paramount to our ability to purposefully and successfully mediate our actions within our day-to-day environment. Dysfunction of the executive system can result in a multitude of behavioral manifestations in all stages of life. Increasing evidence supports the use of rating scales to obtain a more comprehensive and ecologically valid understanding of an individual’s executive functioning. The current thesis involves two articles examining the use of behavioral rating scales in the assessment of executive functions. Study 1: In response to a recent proliferation of executive functions rating scales, this article reviews and discusses currently available scales for the assessment of executive functions across the lifespan. Study 2: This study derived an executive functions screener from the Behavioral Assessment System for Children (BASC-2-SRP-COL) for use in young adults and evaluated it against a well-known executive function rating scale (the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Adult Version).en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0622en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0632en_US
dc.description.proquestemaileduggan@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5656
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectexecutive functionen_US
dc.subjectrating scaleen_US
dc.subjectassessmenten_US
dc.subjectecological validityen_US
dc.subjectlifespanen_US
dc.subjectconfirmatory factor analysisen_US
dc.subjectconvergent validityen_US
dc.titleAssessing the behavioral aspects of executive functioning across the lifespan: review of rating scales and psychometric derivation of a screener for young adultsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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