Psychometric Properties of the Barkley Deficits in Executive Functioning Scale (BDEFS) in a College Student Population

Abstract

capacity, behavioral-structure capacity, social capacity, and cultural capacity. In spatial capacity, the “individuals come to purposefully rearrange or organize their surrounding physical environment to assist in goal attainment” (Barkley, 2012 p. 74). This requires an ability to mentally represent spatial distances. The ability to “reflect how far into the future an individual is capable of contemplating a goal” (Barkley, 2012 p. 74) is temporal capacity. Sometimes this is referred to as the “time horizon.” This refers to the time between an event and the preparation for that event. The preceding capacities are required as a basis of the motivational capacity, “which is distinguished by the fact that this capacity reflects an appraisal of that future, while the spatial and temporal capacities above are comprised of cognitive parameters or purely informational” (Barkley, 2012 p 75). The motivation comes from the personal value placed on

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