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Comparing the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and the Child Behavior Checklist: Is Small Beautiful?

Goodman, Robert, Scott, Stephen·1999·Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Abstract

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief behavioral screening questionnaire that can be completed in 5 minutes by the parents or teachers of children aged 4 to 16; there is a self-report version for 11- to 16-year-olds. In this study, mothers completed the SDQ and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) on 132 children aged 4 through 7 and drawn from psychiatric and dental clinics. Scores from the SDQ and CBCL were highly correlated and equally able to discriminate psychiatric from dental cases. As judged against a semistructured interview, the SDQ was significantly better than the CBCL at detecting inattention and hyperactivity, and at least as good at detecting internalizing and externalizing problems. Mothers of low-risk children were twice as likely to prefer the SDQ.

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Authors
Goodman, R., & Scott, S.
Venue
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
Published
1999-02
Volume
27
Issue
1
Pages
17-24
ISSN
  • 0091-0627 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-2835
OpenAlex
W1653360437
Cited by
1,420
References
15
Citations by year
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FWCI
15.68
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Health Services Research and Development
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Child Behavior Checklist, behavioral screening, parent questionnaires, hyperactivity/inattention, internalizing problems, externalizing problems, preschool children
MeSH terms
Child, Child Behavior Disorders, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Male, Mother-Child Relations, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sensitivity and Specificity, Reproducibility of Results

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