Reliability and validity of the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory with African-American and Latino parents of young children.
This study evaluated the reliability, equivalence, and convergent validity of the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI) in 682, 2- to 4-year-old children. For analysis, parent informants' data were blocked by race/ethnicity (African-American, Latino, non-Latino White), family income (low versus middle/upper), child's gender, and ECBI language version (English and Spanish). ECBI scales had high internal consistency reliabilities and good convergence with the Child Behavior Checklist/1-5. Some racial/ethnic and income effects were found. There were no mean differences by ECBI language version or by child gender. Using confirmatory factor analysis, a single-factor invariant model of the ECBI Intensity Scale provided a good fit with the data across racial/ethnic and income groups. Implications for using the ECBI to measure behavior problems in young children of color are discussed.
Gross
Deborah
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Rush University College of Nursing, 600 South Paulina Avenue, Suite 1080, Chicago, IL, USA.
Fogg
Louis
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Young
Michael
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Ridge
Alison
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Cowell
Julia
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Sivan
Abigail
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Richardson
Reginald
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D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000193:education / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D002641:Chicago; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000208:ethnology; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003144:Communication Barriers; D015986:Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000193:education / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008297:Male; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012660:Semantics; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*