Cross-cultural generalizability of the Youth Self-Report and Teacher's Report Form cross-informant syndromes

J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1996 Oct;24(5):651-64. doi: 10.1007/BF01670105.

Abstract

Exploratory factor analyses on 569 Youth Self-Reports and 1,221 Teacher's Report Forms of clinically referred Dutch children revealed six and eight factors respectively, very similar to the eight YSR and TRF cross-informant syndromes derived by Achenbach (1991c, 1991d). Mean cross-cultural correlations were .89 for YSR syndromes and .95 for TRF syndromes. In confirmatory factor analyses of the Dutch and American YSR and TRF factor models in cross-validation samples of 570 YSRs and 1,221 TRFs, goodness-of-fit indices were only slightly better for Dutch factor models. The American cross-informant Social Problems and Attention Problems syndromes had the poorest fit. The application of the eight American cross-informant syndromes to Dutch self- and teacher reports was supported.

Publication types

  • Multicenter Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Child Behavior Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Child Behavior Disorders / ethnology*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Cultural Characteristics*
  • Factor Analysis, Statistical
  • Humans
  • Netherlands
  • Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / standards*
  • Referral and Consultation
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Syndrome
  • Translating
  • United States