title: Cross-cultural generalizability of the Youth Self-Report and Teacher's Report Form cross-informant syndromes.
abstract: Exploratory factor analyses on 569 Youth Self-Reports and 1,221 Teacher's Report Forms of clinically referred Dutch children revealed six and eight factors respectively, very similar to the eight YSR and TRF cross-informant syndromes derived by Achenbach (1991c, 1991d). Mean cross-cultural correlations were .89 for YSR syndromes and .95 for TRF syndromes. In confirmatory factor analyses of the Dutch and American YSR and TRF factor models in cross-validation samples of 570 YSRs and 1,221 TRFs, goodness-of-fit indices were only slightly better for Dutch factor models. The American cross-informant Social Problems and Attention Problems syndromes had the poorest fit. The application of the eight American cross-informant syndromes to Dutch self- and teacher reports was supported.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de Groot
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Koot
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Verhulst
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000592:standards*; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013577:Syndrome; D014175:Translating; D014481:United States