1. Preschool Psychopathology Reported by Parents in 23 Societies
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Pranvera Jetishi, Alessandra Frigerio, Manfred Doepfner, Felipe Lecannelier, Roma Jusiene, Bernardine S.C. Woo, Sarah De Pauw, Christiane Capron, Rolando Pomalima, Nese Erol, Solvejg Kristensen, Patrick W. L. Leung, Andre Sourander, Zynep Simsek, Jaime R. Silva, Yen-Tzu Wu, Jianghong Liu, Elaheh Mohammad Esmaeili, Halldor S. Gudmundsson, José Valverde, Kyung Ja Oh, Valerie S. Harder, Anca Dobrean, Niels Bilenberg, Valsamma Eapen, Thomas M. Achenbach, Frank C. Verhulst, Miguel M. Gonçalves, Rosario Montirosso, Karla Van Leeuwen, Leslie Rescorla, Young Ah Kim, Julia Plueck, Michele Duyme, Masha Y. Ivanova, Rebecca P. Ang, Lourdes Ezpeleta, Stephen R. Zubrick, Pedro Dias, Mimoza Shahini, Gudrun Bjarnadottir, Suh-Fang Jeng, Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, [et al.], Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology, and Universidade do Minho
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Male ,Social Sciences ,CBCL ,Personality Assessment ,0302 clinical medicine ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Mass Screening ,Psicologia [Ciências Sociais] ,Salary ,Child Behavior Checklist ,Incidence ,Mental Disorders ,05 social sciences ,Syndrome ,respiratory system ,Multicultural ,Checklist ,3. Good health ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Child, Preschool ,Ciências Sociais::Psicologia ,Female ,Psychology ,Key Words ,Research center ,050104 developmental & child psychology ,Cross-Cultural Comparison ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Psychometrics ,Child Behavior Disorders ,Models, Psychological ,Assessment ,Confirmatory factor analysis ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,medicine ,Remuneration ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Affective Symptoms ,Psychiatry ,Mass screening ,Taxonomy ,Science & Technology ,Preschoolers ,Infant ,Reproducibility of Results ,Social Behavior Disorders ,Cross-cultural studies ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,human activities ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Objective: To test the fit of a seven-syndrome model to ratings of preschoolers' problems by parents in very diverse societies. Method: Parents of 19,106 children 18 to 71 months of age from 23 societies in Asia, Australasia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America completed the Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 1.5-5 (CBCL/1.5-5). Confirmatory factor analyses were used to test the seven-syndrome model separately for each society. Results: The primary model fit index, the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA), indicated acceptable to good fit for each society. Although a six-syndrome model combining the Emotionally Reactive and Anxious/Depressed syndromes also fit the data for nine societies, it fit less well than the seven-syndrome model for seven of the nine societies. Other fit indices yielded less consistent results than the RMSEA. Conclusions: The seven-syndrome model provides one way to capture patterns of children's problems that are manifested in ratings by parents from many societies. Clinicians working with preschoolers from these societies can thus assess and describe parents' ratings of behavioral, emotional, and social problems in terms of the seven syndromes. The results illustrate possibilities for culture general taxonomic constructs of preschool psychopathology. Problems not captured by the CBCL/1.5-5 may form additional syndromes, and other syndrome models may also fit the data., Dr. Ivanovo receives research and salary support from the Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families, which publishes the Child Behavior Checklist [CBCL]. Dr. Achenbach is President of the Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families, and receives remuneration. Dr. Rescorla receives remuneration from the Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families. Dr. Harder previously held a University of Vermont Postdoctoral Fellowship funding by the Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families. Drs. Bjarnadottir, Gudmundsson, Leung, Verhulst, and Mr. Gudmundsson, receive research support from the sole of the CBCL. Dr. Bilenberg has received honoraria from Eli Lilly and Co., Novartis, Neuroscience, and Janseen Cilag. He has received research support from the Danish Research Foundation, the Lundbeck Foundation, Hermansens Mindelegat, and Mods Clausen Fond. Dr. Rapes has received research support from the Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences. Dr. Jusiene has received research support from the Lithuanian Science and Studies Foundation. Drs. Ang, Capron, Dias, Dobrean, Doepfner, Duyme, Erol, Esmaeili, Ezpeleta, Frigerio, Goncalves, Jung, Kim, Liu, Oh, Plueck, Pomo limo, Shahini, Silva, Simsek, Souronder, Valverde, Van Leeuwen, and Zubrick, Ms. De Paw, Ms. Kristensen, Mr. Lecannelier, Ms. Montirosso, Ms. Jetishi, Ms. Woo, and Ms. Wu report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest., info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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- 2010
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