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Table 5 Factorial validity of the Japanese version of the PedsQL Infant Scales

From: Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Infant Scales

 

N = 145

No. of items per scale

Convergent validity (range of correlations)

Discriminative validity (range of correlations)

Scaling successa

Scaling success rateb

Physical functioning

9

0.31–0.72

0.14–0.63

36/36

100.0%

Physical symptoms

10

0.34–0.62

0.17–0.59

32/40

80.0%

Emotional functioning

12

0.35–0.73

0.07–0.60

46/48

95.8%

Social functioning

5

0.67–0.74

0.27–0.61

20/20

100.0%

Cognitive functioning

9

0.55–0.77

0.08–0.64

33/36

91.7%

Physical health summary

19

0.26–0.66

0.16–0.56

17/19

89.5%

Psychosocial health summary

26

0.34–0.70

0.10–0.57

24/26

92.3%

  1. aNumber of convergent correlations significantly higher than discriminant correlations divided by total number of correlations
  2. bScaling success rate is the previous column as a percentage