Open AccessLost in Translation or Just Too Pragmatic?
Author(s) -
Timo Lorenz,
Mona Algner
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
psychological test adaptation and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2698-1866
DOI - 10.1027/2698-1866/a000016
Subject(s) - german , autism , psychology , big five personality traits , confirmatory factor analysis , set (abstract data type) , personality , translation (biology) , developmental psychology , social psychology , linguistics , structural equation modeling , computer science , genetics , biology , machine learning , philosophy , messenger rna , gene , programming language
. The Broader Autism Phenotype Questionnaire (BAPQ) is a measure to assess a set of personality and language characteristics reflecting the phenotypic expression of autistic traits in neurotypically developing individuals. This paper aims to evaluate the newly developed German version of the BAPQ (BAPQ-G) in terms of its factorial validity. We performed confirmatory factor analyses and correlations with other measures of the broader autism phenotype on three German samples ( N 1 = 248, N 2 = 289, N 3 = 255). Associations with other constructs are in line with the assumptions, yet the anticipated factor structure of the BAPQ-G did not meet the cutoff criteria. These results are discussed along with recent findings regarding other cultural versions of the BAPQ.