Age and Gender Invariance in the Taiwan Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition: Higher Order Five-Factor Model

Hsinyi Chen; Jianjun Zhu; Yung Kun Liao; Timothy Z. Keith

doi:10.1177/0734282920930542

Age and Gender Invariance in the Taiwan Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition: Higher Order Five-Factor Model

Hsinyi Chen^*, Jianjun Zhu, Yung Kun Liao, Timothy Z. Keith

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This study investigated the factorial invariance of the Taiwan Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition (WISC-V) across age and gender. A higher order five-factor model was tested on a nationally representative sample of 1,034 children aged 6–16 years. The results demonstrated full factorial invariance for Taiwan children of different ages and gender. The WISC-V subtests demonstrated the same underlying theoretical latent constructs, strength of relations among factors and subtests, validity of each first-order factor, and communalities, regardless of age and gender, which supported the same interpretive approach of the WISC-V. These results accord with findings in the United States, indicating a full factorial invariance of the WISC-V five-factor structure across ages and gender.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1033-1045
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment
Volume	38
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0734282920930542
Publication status	Published - 2020 Dec

Keywords

Taiwan
Wechsler Intelligence Scales
age
factorial invariance
gender

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Education
Clinical Psychology
General Psychology

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