title: Evidence for the construct validities of the Beck Youth Inventories with child psychiatric outpatients.
abstract: To provide further information about the construct validities of the Beck Youth Inventories of Emotional and Social Impairment, these inventories were administered to 35 female and 65 male outpatients whose ages ranged from 7 to 12 years and who were diagnosed with various psychiatric disorders. The Children's Depression Inventory was also administered, and the children were rated by a parent with the Conners' Parent Rating Scale-Revised: Short Form. The scores on the former inventory were more positively correlated with the scores on the Beck Youth Depression Inventory (r =.81, p<.001) than with scores on the four other Beck Youth Inventories, and those on the Conners Oppositional scale were comparably correlated with the scores on the Beck Youth Disruptive Behavior (r=.49, p<.001) and Anger (r=.41, p<.001) Inventories. These latter correlations were higher than those for scores on the Oppositional scale with the scores on the three other Beck scales.
authors.affiliation: School of Osteopathic Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Department of Psychiatry, Stratford 08084-1391, USA. steer@umdnj.edu
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Steer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Beck
mesh_terms: D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012917:Social Adjustment