title: [Reliability and validity of the German version of the Youth Self Report].
abstract: The aim of the present study was to investigate certain aspects of the reliability and validity of a German version of the Youth Self-Report (total behavior problem score) and to establish norms. In a sample of 252 patients from various child and adolescent psychiatric services and in an unselected sample of 1343 students from nearby schools high coefficients of internal consistency and split-half reliability (> 0.9) were obtained. An additional 105 students were tested and then retested after 5 weeks and again the rank correlations were high (boys: 0.86; girls: 0.90). The patients had higher total problem scores than the non-patients matched for age, sex, socioeconomic status, type of school and status as a foreigner. Patients with a diagnosis on axis 1 (psychiatric syndrome) or axis 5 (abnormal psychosocial situations) of the Multi-axial Classification Scheme were more maladjusted (higher total behavior problem score) than those without such a diagnosis. As expected, the score for the inpatients (N = 99) was higher than for the outpatients (N = 153). Because of the encouraging results, which justify further use of the Youth Self-Report, norms for the total behavior problem score (T-scores, percentiles) were calculated separately for the boys (N = 2085) and girls (N = 2119) from the general population (10-17 years of age).
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Philipps-Universität Marburg.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Walter
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Remschmidt
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Deimel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D010343:Patient Admission; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology