TABLE 1.

Results from confirmatory factor analyses and reliability analyses of the school-refusal assessment scale – revised (SRAS-R).

	Two-factor solution1			Four-factor solution			Adapted four-factor solution
Factor (subscale)	Estimate	95% CI		Estimate	95% CI		Estimate	95% CI
Item		Lower	Upper		Lower	Upper		Lower	Upper
Factor 1 (avoidance)
Item 1	1.35	1.22	1.47	1.40	1.27	1.54	1.40	1.27	1.54
Item 5	1.16	1.03	1.28	1.21	1.08	1.34	1.22	1.09	1.36
Item 9	1.23	1.11	1.35	1.28	1.15	1.41	1.27	1.15	1.40
Item 13	1.42	1.29	1.55	1.48	1.33	1.62	1.47	1.33	1.61
Item 17	1.73	1.57	1.88	1.80	1.64	1.97	1.80	1.64	1.96
Item 21	1.41	1.28	1.54	1.48	1.34	1.62	1.47	1.33	1.61
Cronbachs alpha (α)	−	−	−	0.93	0.89	0.95	0.93	0.89	0.95
Mcdonalds omega (ω)	−	−	−	0.93	0.90	0.95	0.93	0.90	0.95
Factor 2 (social avoidance)
Item 2	0.85	0.73	0.96	0.96	0.83	1.08	0.97	0.84	1.10
Item 6	0.80	0.70	0.91	0.91	0.79	1.03	0.90	0.77	1.03
Item 10	0.69	0.59	0.80	0.81	0.68	0.93	0.79	0.67	0.91
Item 14	1.32	1.19	1.45	1.46	1.31	1.62	1.52	1.36	1.68
Item 18	1.35	1.19	1.51	1.56	1.37	1.74	1.45	1.26	1.64
Item 22	1.40	1.27	1.54	1.56	1.40	1.71	1.58	1.42	1.74
Cronbachs alpha (α)	0.92	0.89	0.94	0.85	0.78	0.89	0.85	0.78	0.89
Mcdonalds omega (ω)	0.92	0.88	0.94	0.84	0.76	0.89	0.84	0.76	0.89
Factor 3 (seeking attention)
Item 3	1.49	1.35	1.64	1.52	1.37	1.67	1.54	1.39	1.69
Item 7	1.20	1.08	1.33	1.22	1.09	1.35	1.22	1.09	1.35
Item 11	1.64	1.49	1.79	1.66	1.51	1.82	1.65	1.50	1.81
Item 15	1.21	1.06	1.36	1.23	1.08	1.38	1.23	1.08	1.39
Item 19	1.15	1.01	1.29	1.16	1.02	1.30	1.14	1.00	1.28
Item 23	1.67	1.51	1.84	1.70	1.53	1.87	1.69	1.52	1.87
Cronbachs alpha (α)				0.90	0.86	0.93	0.90	0.86	0.93
Mcdonalds omega (ω)				0.89	0.85	0.93	0.89	0.85	0.93
Factor 4 (tangible reinforcements)
Item 4	0.01	−0.10	0.11	0.06	−0.10	0.23	1.04	0.72	1.35
Item 8	−0.16	−0.26	−0.05	0.29	0.13	0.46	0.86	0.60	1.12
Item 12	−0.03	−0.14	0.07	0.12	−0.05	0.28	1.42	1.00	1.84
Item 16	0.34	0.24	0.44	−0.58	−0.76	−0.40	0.16	−0.07	0.39
Item 20	0.85	0.69	1.01	−1.58	−1.99	−1.16	−	−	−
Item 24	0.30	0.19	0.42	−0.51	−0.70	−0.32	−	−	−
Cronbachs alpha (α)	0.80	0.73	0.85	0.53	0.32	0.67	0.68	0.54	0.77
Mcdonalds omega (ω)	0.81	0.74	0.86	0.54	0.40	0.65	0.74	0.66	0.82

¹Factors 1 and 2 and factors 3 and 4, respectively, were collapsed into a negative reinforcement and a positive reinforcement factor.

²Estimates for the collapsed factor of negative reinforcement comprising factors 1 and 2.

³Estimates for the collapsed factor of positive reinforcement comprising factors 3 and 4.

CI = confidence interval.