The Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFS-C): Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance across Time and Sex in a Community-Based Sample

The factor structure and measurement invariance of the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFS-C; Crick et al. 2005) was examined in a community-based sample of Canadian adolescents (N = 252 boys; N = 314 girls) assessed yearly from age 13 to age 16. Attempts to confirm the originally proposed four factor structure of the BPFS-C were not successful. Follow-up exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses provided evidence for an …