title: Reliability and validity of the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory with African-American and Latino parents of young children.
abstract: 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.
authors: Rush University College of Nursing, 600 South Paulina Avenue, Suite 1080, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors: Deborah
authors: D
authors: Gross
authors: Louis
authors: L
authors: Fogg
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Young
authors: Alison
authors: A
authors: Ridge
authors: Julia
authors: J
authors: Cowell
authors: Abigail
authors: A
authors: Sivan
authors: Reginald
authors: R
authors: Richardson
mesh_terms: 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*