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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Res Autism Spectr Disord. 2012 January-March;6(1):96–108. doi: 10.1016/j.rasd.2011.03.009

Table 2.

CFA Results For Syndrome Scales

Model SBχ2a df RMSEA CFI Median
Factor Loading
rcb
Anxious/Depressed 78.51 65 .041 .995 .750 .94
Withdrawn/Depressed 34.59* 20 .078 .975 .655 .85
Somatic Complaintsc 28.16 35 .000 1.00 .604 .88
Social Problems 77.98** 44 .080 .959 .607 .84
Thought Problemsd 83.67* 35 .107 .900 .437 .76
  Correlated disturbancee 68.14** 34 .091 .930 .340 .69
Attention Problems 62.33** 35 .080 .955 .519 .83
Rule-Breaking Behaviorf 14.86 14 .023 .997 .612 .76
Aggressive Behaviorg 207.74** 90 .104 .949 .658 .92
  Correlated disturbanceh 119.81* 88 .055 .986 .665 .90

Notes. N = 122. CFAs used Diagonally Weighted Least Squares estimation.

a

Satorra-Bentler chi-square.

b

Scale reliability.

c

Sans Item 56g vomiting, throwing up.

d

Sans Items 18 deliberately harms self or attempts suicide, 40 hears sound or voices that aren’t there, 46 nervous movements or twitching, 70 sees things that aren’t there, 85 strange ideas.

e

Correlated errors for Items 59 plays with own sex parts and 60 plays with own sex parts too much.

f

Sans Items 2 drinks alcohol without parents’ approval, 72 sets fires, 73 sexual problems, 81 steals at home, 82 steals outside the home, 96 thinks about sex too much, 99 smokes, chews, or sniffs tobacco, 101 truancy, skips school, 105 uses drugs for nonmedical purposes, 106 vandalism.

g

Sans Items 37 gets in many fights, 86 stubborn, sullen, or irritable and 88 sulks a lot.

h

Correlated errors for items 20 (destroys his/her own things) and 21 (destroys things belonging to his/her family or others); and items 22 (disobedient at home) and 23 (disobedient at school).

*

p<.05

**

p<.005