Confirmatory Factor Analyses of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised and the Hong Kong-Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

The purpose of this study was to assess the developmental and the cultural invariance of the factor structure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R). Both the WISC-R and an adapted version of the WISC-R, adapted for use in Hong Kong, called the HK-WISC, were examined by using confirmatory factor analysis. Age groups of children 7, 10, and 13 years old were studied to assess the developmental invariance of the WISC-R and of the HK-WISC. The results supported the conjecture of cultural invariance of the WISC-R.