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.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA. masha.ivanova@uvm.edu
Masha Y
MY
Ivanova
Anca
A
Dobrean
Manfred
M
Dopfner
Nese
N
Erol
Eric
E
Fombonne
Antonio Castro
AC
Fonseca
Alessandra
A
Frigerio
Hans
H
Grietens
Helga
H
Hannesdottir
Yasuko
Y
Kanbayashi
Michael
M
Lambert
Thomas M
TM
Achenbach
Bo
B
Larsson
Patrick
P
Leung
Xianchen
X
Liu
Asghar
A
Minaei
Mesfin S
MS
Mulatu
Torunn S
TS
Novik
Kyung Ja
KJ
Oh
Alexandra
A
Roussos
Michael
M
Sawyer
Zeynep
Z
Simsek
Levent
L
Dumenci
Hans-Christoph
HC
Steinhausen
Christa Winkler
CW
Metzke
Tomasz
T
Wolanczyk
Hao-Jan
HJ
Yang
Nelly
N
Zilber
Rita
R
Zukauskiene
Frank C
FC
Verhulst
Leslie A
LA
Rescorla
Fredrik
F
Almqvist
Sheila
S
Weintraub
Niels
N
Bilenberg
Hector
H
Bird
Wei J
WJ
Chen
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