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Summa psicológica UST (En línea)

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BAEZA, Carmen Gloria Fernández. Adaptation and psychometric analysis of the Gilliam Asperger' Disorder Scale. Summa psicol. UST (En línea) [online]. 2013, vol.10, n.2, pp. 5-20. ISSN 0718-0446.

The Gilliam Asperger's Disorder Scale (GADS) is a norm-referenced assessment designed to help professionals in Asperger Syndrome (AS) diagnosis. This scale is used to evaluate subjects between 3 and 22 years old and it can be completed by anyone who has regular contact with a subject with AS. The only known psychometric studies with positive results are those of the normative sample. Thus this research attempts to explain whether GADS retains the psychometric properties of the normative sample when applied to the Chilean population with AS. To this purpose it was selected a probabilistic intentional sample compose of 36 subjects in the pilot phase and 111 subjects in the final phase. The subscales obtained a Cronbach's alpha between 0,73 and 0,87, while the global scored 0,92. It was carried out an exploratory factor analysis, thought which it was obtained a factor solution of 8 in the final phase. The results obtained allow to conclude that GADS has adequate psychometric properties, which means GADS is a valid and reliable instrument to be applied to Chilean population.

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