title: Cross-Cultural Aspect of Behavior Assessment System for Children-2, Parent Rating Scale-Child: Standardization in Korean Children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our study aimed to examine psychometric properties and cross-cultural utility of the Behavior Assessment System for Children-2, Parent Rating Scale-Child (BASC-2 PRS-C) in Korean children.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two study populations were recruited: a general population sample (n=2115) of 1st to 6th graders from 16 elementary schools and a clinical population (n=219) of 6-12 years old from 5 child psychiatric clinics and an epidemiological sample of autism spectrum disorder. We assessed the validity and reliability of the Korean version of BASC-2 PRS-C (K-BASC-2 PRS-C) and compared subscales with those used for US populations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Our results indicate that the K-BASC-2 PRS-C is a valuable instrument with reliability and validity for measuring developmental psychopathology that is comparable to those in Western population. However, there were some differences noted in the mean scores of BASC-2 PRS-C between Korean and US populations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  K-BASC-2 PRS-C is an effective and useful instrument with psychometric properties that permits measurement of general developmental psychopathology. Observed Korean-US differences in patterns of parental reports of children's behaviors indicate the importance of the validation, standardization and cultural adaptation for tools assessing psychopathology especially when used in populations different from those for which the instrument was originally created.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Korea.
authors.forename: Jungeun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.|Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Bennett L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Leventhal
authors.affiliation: The Korea Institute for Children's Social Development, Rudolph Child Research Center, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Yun Joo
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Koh
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Keun Ah
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Cheon
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea.
authors.forename: Hyun Ju
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei Bom Clinic, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Young Key
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Cyber University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Kyungjin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.affiliation: The Korea Institute for Children's Social Development, Rudolph Child Research Center, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Eun Chung
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Jee In
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.|Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. youngshin.kim@ucsf.edu.
authors.forename: Young Shin
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000067877:Autism Spectrum Disorder; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002657:Child Development; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D011594:Psychometrics; D012015:Reference Standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D056910:Republic of Korea; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Child; behavior rating scale; cross-cultural comparison; standardization