title: Teacher ratings of ODD symptoms: measurement equivalence across Malaysian Malay, Chinese and Indian children.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The study examined the measurement equivalence for teacher ratings across Malaysian Malay, Chinese and Indian children.
  
  
  METHODS
  Malaysian teachers completed ratings of the ODD symptoms for 574 Malay, 247 Chinese and 98 Indian children.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results supported the equivalences for the configural, metric, and error variances models, and the equivalences for ODD latent variances and mean scores.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Together, these findings suggest good support for measurement and structural equivalences of the ODD symptoms across these ethnic groups. The theoretical and clinical implications of the findings for cross-cultural equivalence of the ODD symptoms are discussed.
authors.affiliation: University of Ballarat, Australia. Electronic address: rapson.gomez@ballarat.edu.au.
authors.forename: Rapson
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gomez
mesh_terms: D019958:Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D005006:Ethnicity; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia; D008297:Male; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Cross-cultural equivalence; Malaysia; Multiple-group CFA; Oppositional defiant disorder