Testing the relationship between different bifactor models of psychopathology using CBCL

What is it about?

Bifactor models of psychopathology using CBCL have different ways to be configured. This means that there are out there various models of the same instrument that use different item sets. We want to test in which extent these models are different and if there is the best model.

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Why is it important?

It demonstrates that even with huge differences in terms of which item you include in a model of psychopathology, the correlation among the p-factors (general overarching factor) is extremely high among the models. Differences emerge regarding the specific residual factors, such as internalizing/emotional symptoms, attention, etc.