Title
International epidemiology of child and adolescent psychopathology II: Integration and applications of dimensional findings from 44 societies
Date Issued
01 January 2012
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Rescorla L.
Ivanova M.Y.
Achenbach T.M.
Begovac I.
Chahed M.
Drugli M.B.
Emerich D.R.
Fung D.S.S.
Haider M.
Hansson K.
Hewitt N.
Jaimes S.
Larsson B.
Maggiolini A.
Marković J.
Mitrović D.
Moreira P.
Oliveira J.T.
Olsson M.
Ooi Y.P.
Petot D.
Pisa C.
Da Rocha M.M.
Rudan V.
Sekulić S.
Shahini M.
De Mattos Silvares E.F.
Szirovicza L.
Vera L.A.
Villa M.C.
Viola L.
Woo B.S.C.
Zhang E.Y.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Objective: To build on Achenbach, Rescorla, and Ivanova (2012) by (a) reporting new international findings for parent, teacher, and self-ratings on the Child Behavior Checklist, Youth Self-Report, and Teachers Report Form; (b) testing the fit of syndrome models to new data from 17 societies, including previously underrepresented regions; (c) testing effects of society, gender, and age in 44 societies by integrating new and previous data; (d) testing cross-society correlations between mean item ratings; (e) describing the construction of multisociety norms; (f) illustrating clinical applications. Method: Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) of parent, teacher, and self-ratings, performed separately for each society; tests of societal, gender, and age effects on dimensional syndrome scales, DSM-oriented scales, Internalizing, Externalizing, and Total Problems scales; tests of agreement between low, medium, and high ratings of problem items across societies. Results: CFAs supported the tested syndrome models in all societies according to the primary fit index (Root Mean Square Error of Approximation [RMSEA]), but less consistently according to other indices; effect sizes were small-to-medium for societal differences in scale scores, but very small for gender, age, and interactions with society; items received similarly low, medium, or high ratings in different societies; problem scores from 44 societies fit three sets of multisociety norms. Conclusions: Statistically derived syndrome models fit parent, teacher, and self-ratings when tested individually in all 44 societies according to RMSEAs (but less consistently according to other indices). Small to medium differences in scale scores among societies supported the use of low-, medium-, and high-scoring norms in clinical assessment of individual children. © 2012 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Volume
51
Issue
12
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
EpidemiologÃa
PsiquiatrÃa
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84870344633
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
ISSN of the container
08908567
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the nonprofit Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families (RCCYF), which publishes the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA), and the Singapore Ministry of Health’s National Medical Research Council under its Individual Research Grant NMRC/0745-2003 (D.S.S.F., Y.P.O., B.S.C.W). The Portuguese study was supported by the Fundação Minerva-Cultura-Ensino e Investigação CientÃfica, the founding organization of the LusÃada Universities (P.M., J.T.O.).
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