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Factor Analysis of the Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBe)

Julie C. Stout

Indiana University

Rebecca E. Ready

Janet Grace

Paul F. Malloy

Brown University

Jane S. Paulsen

University of Iowa

The Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBe), formerly called the Frontal Lobe Personality Scale (FLOPS), is a brief behavior rating scale with demonstrated validity for the assessment of behavior disturbances associated with damage to the frontal-subcortical brain circuits. The authors report an exploratory principal factor analysis of the FrSBe–Family Version in a sample including 324 neurological patients and research participants, of which about 63% were diagnosed with neurodegenerative diseases (Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's diseases). The three-factor solution accounted for a modest level of variance (41%) and confirmed a factor structure consistent with the three subscales proposed on the theoretical basis of the frontal systems. Most items (83%) from the FrSBe subscales of Apathy, Disinhibition, and Executive Dysfunction loaded saliently on three corresponding factors. The FrSBe factor structure supports its utility for assessing both the severity of the three frontal syndromes in aggregate and separately.

Key Words: disinhibition • executive function • apathy • frontal

Assessment, Vol. 10, No. 1, 79-85 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1073191102250339
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