Design and preliminary analysis of a taxonomic conceptual relations assessment tool in spanish-speaking clinical population

This paper presents the design and preliminary psychometric analysis of a scale to assess taxonomic conceptual relations. The instrument consists of a verbal and a pictorial scale and offers four answer choices. We assessed 43 participants with and without neurological disease over 60 years. A discr...

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Autores principales: Vivas, Leticia, Fernández Liporace, Mercedes
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spelling I10-R363-article-104392019-05-30T17:00:10Z Design and preliminary analysis of a taxonomic conceptual relations assessment tool in spanish-speaking clinical population Diseño y análisis preliminar de un instrumento para evaluar relaciones taxonómicas en población clínica hispanoparlante Vivas, Leticia Fernández Liporace, Mercedes relaciones taxonómicas evaluación propiedades psicométricas semántica taxonomic relation assessment psychometric properties semantic This paper presents the design and preliminary psychometric analysis of a scale to assess taxonomic conceptual relations. The instrument consists of a verbal and a pictorial scale and offers four answer choices. We assessed 43 participants with and without neurological disease over 60 years. A discriminant analysis was conducted and it indicated a sensitivity of 90.9 % for the verbal scale and 91 % for the pictorial and a specificity of 100 % for both scales. Reliability analysis yielded ordinal alpha values of .985 for the verbal scale and .983 for the pictorial scale. In turn, evidences of convergent validity were obtained by correlating with WAIS´ Analogies subtest, Picture sorting from the EMSDA and word-picture matching from the BEA. En este trabajo se presentan los resultados psicométricos preliminares de un instrumento para evaluar relaciones conceptuales taxonómicas. El instrumento está conformado por una escala verbal y una pictórica y ofrece cuatro opciones de respuesta. Se evaluó a 43 participantes, mayores de 60 años, con y sin patología neurológica. Se realizó una regresión logística binaria que indicó una sensibilidad del 90.9% para la escala verbal y 96.8% para la pictórica y una especificidad del 96.8% para la escala verbal y 100% para la pictórica. El análisis de confiabilidad arrojó valores de alfa ordinales de .99 para la escala verbal y .98 para la escala pictórica. A su vez, se obtuvieron evidencias de validez convergente mediante la correlación con el subtest de Analogías del WAIS, Clasificación de imágenes de la EMSDA y emparejamiento palabra-dibujo de la BEA. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 2015-12-15 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf application/msword https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/racc/article/view/10439 10.32348/1852.4206.v7.n3.10439 Argentinean Journal of Behavioral Sciences; Vol. 7 No. 3 (2015): Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento; 51-63 Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento; Vol. 7 Núm. 3 (2015): Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento; 51-63 1852-4206 10.32348/1852.4206.v7.n3 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/racc/article/view/10439/Vivas https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/racc/article/view/10439/25414 Derechos de autor 2015 Leticia Vivas, Mercedes Fernández Liporace
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topic relaciones taxonómicas
evaluación
propiedades psicométricas
semántica
taxonomic relation
assessment
psychometric properties
semantic
spellingShingle relaciones taxonómicas
evaluación
propiedades psicométricas
semántica
taxonomic relation
assessment
psychometric properties
semantic
Vivas, Leticia
Fernández Liporace, Mercedes
Design and preliminary analysis of a taxonomic conceptual relations assessment tool in spanish-speaking clinical population
topic_facet relaciones taxonómicas
evaluación
propiedades psicométricas
semántica
taxonomic relation
assessment
psychometric properties
semantic
author Vivas, Leticia
Fernández Liporace, Mercedes
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Fernández Liporace, Mercedes
author_sort Vivas, Leticia
title Design and preliminary analysis of a taxonomic conceptual relations assessment tool in spanish-speaking clinical population
title_short Design and preliminary analysis of a taxonomic conceptual relations assessment tool in spanish-speaking clinical population
title_full Design and preliminary analysis of a taxonomic conceptual relations assessment tool in spanish-speaking clinical population
title_fullStr Design and preliminary analysis of a taxonomic conceptual relations assessment tool in spanish-speaking clinical population
title_full_unstemmed Design and preliminary analysis of a taxonomic conceptual relations assessment tool in spanish-speaking clinical population
title_sort design and preliminary analysis of a taxonomic conceptual relations assessment tool in spanish-speaking clinical population
description This paper presents the design and preliminary psychometric analysis of a scale to assess taxonomic conceptual relations. The instrument consists of a verbal and a pictorial scale and offers four answer choices. We assessed 43 participants with and without neurological disease over 60 years. A discriminant analysis was conducted and it indicated a sensitivity of 90.9 % for the verbal scale and 91 % for the pictorial and a specificity of 100 % for both scales. Reliability analysis yielded ordinal alpha values of .985 for the verbal scale and .983 for the pictorial scale. In turn, evidences of convergent validity were obtained by correlating with WAIS´ Analogies subtest, Picture sorting from the EMSDA and word-picture matching from the BEA.
publisher Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
publishDate 2015
url https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/racc/article/view/10439
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