title: Measurement structure of the Turkish translation of the Child Behavior Checklist using confirmatory factor analytic approaches to validation of syndromal constructs.
abstract: The new correlated 8-factor measurement structure of the Child Behavior Checklist for ages 6-18 (CBCL/6-18; T. M. Achenbach & L. A. Rescorla, 2001) derived from an American sample was used as a benchmark to evaluate its generalizability to Turkish general population (N = 5,195) and clinical (N = 963) samples. Item-level confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to evaluate the adequacy of the correlated 8-factor model across 3 sample conditions (general population, clinical, and combined sample whose Total Problems scores were above the Turkish national median). The results supported the generalizability of the overall measurement structure of the CBCL to the Turkish population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, 1 South Prospect Street, Burlington, Vermont 05401-3456, USA. levent.dumenci@uvm.edu
authors.forename: Levent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dumenci
authors.forename: Nese
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Erol
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Achenbach
authors.forename: Zeynep
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Simsek
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating