Pedro Gil-Madrona, Eva Cristina Gutiérrez-Marín, Marcos Cupani, Amaury Samalot-Rivera, Arturo Díaz-Suárez, Guillermo F López-Sánchez
The Effects of an Appropriate Behavior Program on Elementary School Children Social Skills Development in Physical Education
Frontiers in psychology
concept rulegoverned behavior rgb used behavioranalytic literature way analyze complex human behavior including thinking problemsolving relational frame theory suggests existence two main functional types rgb termed pliance tracking paper describe development generalized tracking questionnaire gtq preliminary evaluation psychometric properties validity three studies total 1155 participants study 1 pool items describing main characteristics generalized tracking designed evaluated experts rft account rgb resulting 11 items administered 460 undergraduates examine understandability psychometric quality items exploratory factor analysis indicated gtq seen unidimensional scale items exhibiting high factor loadings corrected itemtotal correlations study 2 gtq administered online sample 464 nonclinical participants clinical sample 125 participants onefactor model gtq obtained good fit conducted confirmatory factor analysis gtq showed measurement invariance across gender clinical nonclinical participants also obtained excellent internal consistency correlated theoretically coherent ways constructs study 3 gtq neuropsychological battery executive functions administered 105 participants gtq showed statistically significant mediumsize correlations working memory tests verbal fluency planning behavioral inhibition conclusion gtq seems promising measure advance empirical analysis functional classes rgb