caa a22 4500 606238638 CHVBK 20210128101259.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10862-014-9434-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10862-014-9434-1 Loneliness in Children and Adolescents With and Without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen Houghton, Eileen Roost, Annemaree Carroll, Mark Brandtman] Although there have been developments in understanding loneliness in children and adolescents, there is still very limited understanding of the construct in children and adolescents diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The Perth A-Loneness scale (PALs), which comprises 24 items measuring four dimensions of loneliness in young people, was administered to 84 children and adolescents who had been clinically diagnosed as meeting criteria for ADHD. Eighty four individually age and gender matched non ADHD Community Comparisons with no diagnosed neurological deficits also completed the PALs. Competing measurement models were evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis and a first-order model represented by four correlated factors (Friendship Loneliness, Isolation, Negative Attitude to Solitude, and Positive Attitude to Solitude) was superior: CMIN/DF ratio (1.644), CFI (0.90), and RMSEA = 0.056 (90% CI: 0.05, 0.07). A multivariate analysis of variance revealed no significant multivariate interactions or main effects of Group (ADHD/Non ADHD) or Sex (Male/Female). Overlap of 90 to 98% between the ADHD and non ADHD samples in their 95% Confidence Intervals for each of the four loneliness scores along with very small Effect Sizes further strengthened the finding of a non-significant main effect. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 ADHD nationallicence Children and adolescents nationallicence Loneliness nationallicence Confirmatory factor analysis nationallicence Houghton Stephen Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia, 6009, Crawley Perth, WA, Australia aut Roost Eileen Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia, 6009, Crawley Perth, WA, Australia aut Carroll Annemaree School of Education, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia aut Brandtman Mark Brandtman Educational Consulting, Sydney, Australia aut Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/1(2015-03-01), 27-37 0882-2689 37:1<27 2015 37 10862 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-014-9434-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-014-9434-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Houghton Stephen Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia, 6009, Crawley Perth, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Roost Eileen Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia, 6009, Crawley Perth, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Carroll Annemaree School of Education, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brandtman Mark Brandtman Educational Consulting, Sydney, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/1(2015-03-01), 27-37 0882-2689 37:1<27 2015 37 10862