Psychometric Properties and Measurement Invariance of the Generalized Tracking Questionnaire-Children

[...]the GTQ-C seems to be a valid and reliable measure of generalized tracking for children that might be used to analyze the developmental trajectories of tracking and its relationship with other relevant behavioral processes. Tracking is usually developed after some practice with pliance and is due to a history of multiple exemplars in which acting according to the rule content was reinforced by the natural consequences that are derived from the way the world is arranged (Hayes et alia, 1989; Luciano et alia, 2012). [...]the main difference between pliance and tracking is the apparent source of reinforcement for rule-following: social or arbitrary in the case of pliance and nonarbitrary in the case of tracking (Hayes et alia, 1989; Luciano et alia, 2012; Zettle & Hayes, 1982). [...]confounding the content of the rule with the functions actualized in the listener is just another form of confounding the stimulus object and the stimulus functions, which is one of the main conceptual difficulties to provide functional-analytic explanations of complex human behavior (Hayes & Hayes, 1989; Kantor, 1924; Parrott, 1984). According to the latter points, the difficulties found in the experimental analysis of the functional classes of rule-following are understandable (Kissi et alia, 2017).