title: A comparison of syndromes derived from the child behavior checklist for American and Dutch girls aged 6-11 and 12-16.
abstract: Child Behavior Checklists completed by parents of 1848 clinically referred American and Dutch girls aged 6-11 and 12-16 were subjected to principal components analyses with varimax rotations. For the 6-11 yr age group, seven of the nine empirically derived syndromes showed cross-national correlations ranging from 0.80 to 0.98. For 12-16-yr-old girls, all eight of the American syndromes were firmly replicated for Dutch girls with correlations ranging from 0.84 to 0.97. Furthermore, cross-national similarities in the distribution of scores for normative samples supported the use of the same syndrome scales by clinicians and researchers in the two countries.
authors.affiliation: Sophia Children's Hospital, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Verhulst
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Achenbach
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Althaus
authors.forename: G W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Akkerhuis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002657:Child Development; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D013577:Syndrome; D014481:United States