CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 269Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychological Testing and AssessmentMental Health Research Topics

Evaluation of the self-reported SDQ in a clinical setting: Do self-reports tell us more than ratings by adult informants?

Becker, Andreas, Hagenberg, Nicola, Roessner, Veit, Woerner, Wolfgang, Rothenberger, Aribert·2004·European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
DOI 10.1007/s00787-004-2004-4
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate the German self-reported Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in a clinical setting. We also investigated whether this additional information gathered directly from older children and adolescents improves the prediction of clinical status when external ratings from their parents and/or teachers are already available. Methods SDQ self-reports were collected from 214 in- and outpatients (81 girls and 133 boys) aged 11 to 17 years who were seen at the department of child and adolescent psychiatry of the University of Göttingen. Results obtained with the self-rated questionnaire were compared with the parent and teacher SDQs, corresponding CBCL/YSR scores, and the clinical diagnostic classification. Finally, the additional diagnostic benefits of the self-reports were examined. Results The scales of the SDQ self-report proved to be sufficiently homogeneous, and acceptable correlations were found with the equivalent parent and teacher ratings. The self-rated version of the SDQ demonstrated good validity with respect to the differentiation between clinically defined cases and non-cases and in detecting various subcategories of psychiatric disorders within the clinic sample. SDQ self-reports significantly contributed to the prediction of diagnostic status, specifically if only parent or teacher ratings were available. Conclusions The self-rated version of the SDQ was shown to be a reliable and valid method for the assessment of behavioural problems in children and adolescents. In the absence of adult informant reports from parents and teachers, the diagnostic value of self-ratings was also demonstrated.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1007/s00787-004-2004-4

Cites

4 of 4 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • The conduct problems subscale of the SDQ was the study's outcome variable, as it has been extensively used to measure aggressive behaviour and interpersonal aggression across a wide range of cultures in community, academic and clinical settings.

    “The conduct problems subscale of the SDQ was the study's outcome variable, as it has been extensively used to measure aggressive behaviour and interpersonal aggression across a wide range of cultures in community [58], academic [59] and clinical [60] settings.”

    From Violent video game engagement is not associated with adolescents' aggressive behaviour: evidence from a registered report (2019) · cites this paper as [60]

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Becker, A., Hagenberg, N., Roessner, V., Woerner, W., & Rothenberger, A.
Affiliations
University of Göttingen (DE)
Corresponding author
Becker, Andreas
ORCID
Venue
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2004-07
Volume
13
Issue
S2
Pages
II17-24
ISSN
  • 1018-8827 (ISSN-L)
  • 1435-165X
DOI
10.1007/s00787-004-2004-4
OpenAlex
W2016444773
Cited by
269
References
4
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 13
FWCI
7.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • GRO (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
Keywords
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, self-report, child and adolescent psychiatry, behavioral problems, parent and teacher ratings, informant agreement, diagnostic validity, clinical prediction, German-language questionnaire, Child Behavior Checklist
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Mental Disorders, Child, Female, Humans, Male, Predictive Value of Tests, Surveys and Questionnaires, Self-Assessment, Reproducibility of Results

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review