Citation

Ivanova MY, Achenbach TM, Rescorla LA, Guo J, Althoff RR, Kan KJ, Almqvist F, Begovac I, Broberg AG, Chahed M, da Rocha MM, Dobrean A, Döepfner M, Erol N, Fombonne E, Fonseca AC, Forns M, Frigerio A, Grietens H, Hewitt-Ramirez N, Juarez F, Kajokiene I, Kanbayashi Y, Kim YA, Larsson B, Leung P, Liu X, Maggiolini A, Minaei A, Moreira PAS, Oh KJ, Petot D, Pisa C, Pomalima R, Roussos A, Rudan V, Sawyer M, Shahini M, Ferreira de Mattos Silvares E, Simsek Z, Steinhausen HC, Szirovicza L, Valverde J, Viola L, Weintraub S, Metzke CW, Wolanczyk T, Woo B, Zhang EY, Zilber N, Zukauskienė R, Verhulst FC. J. Clin. Child Adolesc. Psychol. 2019; 48(4): 596-609.

Affiliation

as Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus University Medical Center-Sophia's Children's Hospital.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15374416.2017.1405352

PMID

29364720

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6-18 and Youth Self-Report for Ages 11-18 were used to measure syndromes descriptively designated as Anxious/Depressed, Withdrawn/Depressed, Somatic Complaints, Social Problems, Thought Problems, Attention Problems, Rule-Breaking Behavior, and Aggressive Behavior.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.

Language: en