Validity and reliability study of the irritability scale: ARI (Affective Reactivity Index) in a clinical population of Mexican adolescents
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Psychopathology, irritable mood, psychometrics, adolescent psychiatry, reproducibility of resultsAbstract
Introduction: Chronic irritability (CI) is a transdiagnostic construct. It has been studied through the Affective Reactivity Index (ARI) instrument, which is one of the most used and studied globally. Objectives: To determine internal consistency, construct validity, convergent validity and divergent validity, test-retest reliability, and inter-informant reliability, and establish the diagnostic test for both versions of the ARI scale. Materials and methods: Adolescents and their parents were assessed, they were interviewed with a semi-structured instrument (K-SADS-PL-5) and answered to different instruments for process validity. Contrasts with ?², correlations with Pearson r were used and diagnostic test values were obtained. Results: 83 adolescents and their parents were included. We found a Cronbach's alpha of 0.918 for ARI adolescents (ARI-A) and 0.904 for ARI parent/guardian (ARI-P). The principal components analysis determined a single factor explaining a variance of 79% in ARI-A and 75% in ARI-P. Test-retest reliability of 0.42-0.67 was found in ARI-A and 0.35-0.53 in ARI-P; interinformant reliability was significant K= 0.24, p=0.002. The areas under the curve were 0.640 for ARI-A and 0.753 for ARI-P. Conclusion: The ARI scale presents adequate validity and reliability in measuring CI in Mexican adolescents with psychopathology.
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