Testing the 8-syndrome structure of the child behavior checklist in 30 societies.
There is a growing need for multicultural collaboration in child mental health services, training, and research. To facilitate such collaboration, this study tested the 8-syndrome structure of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) in 30 societies. Parents' CBCL ratings of 58,051 6- to 18-year-olds were subjected to confirmatory factor analyses, which were conducted separately for each society. Societies represented Asia; Africa; Australia; the Caribbean; Eastern, Western, Southern, and Northern Europe; the Middle East; and North America. Fit indices strongly supported the correlated 8-syndrome structure in each of 30 societies. The results support use of the syndromes in diverse societies.
Ivanova
Masha Y
MY
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA. masha.ivanova@uvm.edu
Dobrean
Anca
A
Dopfner
Manfred
M
Erol
Nese
N
Fombonne
Eric
E
Fonseca
Antonio Castro
AC
Frigerio
Alessandra
A
Grietens
Hans
H
Hannesdottir
Helga
H
Kanbayashi
Yasuko
Y
Lambert
Michael
M
Achenbach
Thomas M
TM
Larsson
Bo
B
Leung
Patrick
P
Liu
Xianchen
X
Minaei
Asghar
A
Mulatu
Mesfin S
MS
Novik
Torunn S
TS
Oh
Kyung Ja
KJ
Roussos
Alexandra
A
Sawyer
Michael
M
Simsek
Zeynep
Z
Dumenci
Levent
L
Steinhausen
Hans-Christoph
HC
Metzke
Christa Winkler
CW
Wolanczyk
Tomasz
T
Yang
Hao-Jan
HJ
Zilber
Nelly
N
Zukauskiene
Rita
R
Verhulst
Frank C
FC
Rescorla
Leslie A
LA
Almqvist
Fredrik
F
Weintraub
Sheila
S
Bilenberg
Niels
N
Bird
Hector
H
Chen
Wei J
WJ
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013223:Statistics as Topic