This study aimed to verify the discriminant validity of the Child-Adolescent Self-reported
Executive Function Difficulty Screening Questionnaire(Song, 2014) on the School Adjustment.
Subjects were elementary school students 74(male 41, female 33), middle school students 103
(male 53, female 50), high school students 85 (male 33, female 52). The school adjustment
scale and the academic achievement levels were used. The school adjustment was divided into
the bottom 20% group and the top 20% group based on the total scores, the academic
achievement was divided into five levels based on the self rating of their own grades in
school. Discriminant analysis was used to verify the discriminant validity of the planning and
organization difficulty, behavior control difficulty, emotional control difficulty and
attention-concentration difficulty on the school adjustment and the academic achievement. ROC
curve was used to produce the cutoff score to classify the school adjustment groups. The
results showed that executive function difficulty questionnaire was able to discriminate 88.2%
correctly in the high school-adjustment group and low school adjustment group. Also the
executive function difficulty questionnaire was able to discriminate 72.5% correctly in the high
achievement group and the low achievement group. ROC analysis revealed that executive
functions difficulty questionnaire was in the range of .7 to .9 in AUC which indicated good
level to discriminate the school adjustment groups. Also ROC analysis showed that executive
functions difficulty questionnaire was in the range of .6 to .8 in AUC which indicates the low
level to discriminate the academic achievement groups, respectively Finally, based on the
values of sensitivity and specificity, the cutoff scores of the executive difficulty factors for the
school adjustment were presented. In this study, the Child-Adolescent Self-reported Executive
Function Difficulty Screening Questionnaire was proved to be useful tool to discriminate the
school adjustment of children and adolescents.