title: Eighteen month test-retest stability of the youth self report in a sample of Catalonian adolescents.
abstract: The aim of this study is to assess the test-retest stability of the Spanish version of Youth Self Report after 18 mo. for a sample of 357 Catalonian high school students (158 boys and 199 girls). At Time 2 the girls' scores increased on Delinquent and Aggressive Behavior scales and, therefore on Externalizing scores. At Time 2 the boys' scores increased on Attention Problems and Delinquent Behavior and decreased on Anxious/Depressed, Social Problems, and Internalizing scales. Significant differences in the remaining scales were not observed. The test-retest intraclass correlations for the broad-band scales ranged between .62 (Internalizing) and .68 (Externalizing) and for the narrow-band scales between .37 and .67. The correlations for girls and boys were similar but slightly higher for girls on Anxious/Depressed and Thought Problems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Personality, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain. tkirchner@ub.edu
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kirchner
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Forns
authors.forename: Juan Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Amador
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D013030:Spain