Testing Syndromes of Psychopathology in Parent and Youth Ratings Across Societies.
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| Title: | Testing Syndromes of Psychopathology in Parent and Youth Ratings Across Societies. |
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| Authors: | Ivanova, Masha Y. (AUTHOR), Achenbach, Thomas M. (AUTHOR), Rescorla, Leslie A. (AUTHOR), Guo, Jiesi (AUTHOR), Althoff, Robert R. (AUTHOR), Kan, Kees-Jan (AUTHOR), Almqvist, Fredrik (AUTHOR), Begovac, Ivan (AUTHOR), Broberg, Anders G. (AUTHOR), Chahed, Myriam (AUTHOR), da Rocha, Marina Monzani (AUTHOR), Dobrean, Anca (AUTHOR), Döepfner, Manfred (AUTHOR), Erol, Nese (AUTHOR), Fombonne, Eric (AUTHOR), Fonseca, Antonio Castro (AUTHOR), Forns, Maria (AUTHOR), Frigerio, Alessandra (AUTHOR), Grietens, Hans (AUTHOR), Hewitt-Ramirez, Nohelia (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology. July/Aug2019, Vol. 48 Issue 4, p596-609. 14p. |
| Subjects: | Child Behavior Checklist, Mental health personnel, Confirmatory factor analysis, Social problems, Youth |
| Abstract: | As societies become increasingly diverse, mental health professionals need instruments for assessing emotional, behavioral, and social problems in terms of constructs that are supported within and across societies. Building on decades of research findings, multisample alignment confirmatory factor analyses tested an empirically based 8-syndrome model on parent ratings across 30 societies and youth self-ratings across 19 societies. The Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 6–18 and Youth Self-Report for Ages 11–18 were used to measure syndromes descriptively designated as Anxious/Depressed, Withdrawn/Depressed, Somatic Complaints, Social Problems, Thought Problems, Attention Problems, Rule-Breaking Behavior, and Aggressive Behavior. For both parent ratings (N = 61,703) and self-ratings (N = 29,486), results supported aggregation of problem items into 8 first-order syndromes for all societies (configural invariance), plus the invariance of item loadings (metric invariance) across the majority of societies. Supported across many societies in both parent and self-ratings, the 8 syndromes offer a parsimonious phenotypic taxonomy with clearly operationalized assessment criteria. Mental health professionals in many societies can use the 8 syndromes to assess children and youths for clinical, training, and scientific purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | As societies become increasingly diverse, mental health professionals need instruments for assessing emotional, behavioral, and social problems in terms of constructs that are supported within and across societies. Building on decades of research findings, multisample alignment confirmatory factor analyses tested an empirically based 8-syndrome model on parent ratings across 30 societies and youth self-ratings across 19 societies. The Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 6–18 and Youth Self-Report for Ages 11–18 were used to measure syndromes descriptively designated as Anxious/Depressed, Withdrawn/Depressed, Somatic Complaints, Social Problems, Thought Problems, Attention Problems, Rule-Breaking Behavior, and Aggressive Behavior. For both parent ratings (N = 61,703) and self-ratings (N = 29,486), results supported aggregation of problem items into 8 first-order syndromes for all societies (configural invariance), plus the invariance of item loadings (metric invariance) across the majority of societies. Supported across many societies in both parent and self-ratings, the 8 syndromes offer a parsimonious phenotypic taxonomy with clearly operationalized assessment criteria. Mental health professionals in many societies can use the 8 syndromes to assess children and youths for clinical, training, and scientific purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 15374416 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15374416.2017.1405352 |
