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Comparing the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and the Child Behavior Checklist: Is Small Beautiful?
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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“Both emotional symptoms and peer problems SDQ subscales show good convergent validity as well as measurement invariance over time (Goodman & Scott, 1999; Speyer, Auyeng, & Murray, 2022; Vugteveen, de Bildt, Theunissen, Reijneveld, & Timmerman, 2021).”
From A cross‐lagged twin study of emotional symptoms, social isolation and peer victimisation from early adolescence to emerging adulthood (2023) · cites this paper as Goodman & Scott, 1999
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“It has been suggested that these scales are well-validated (Riso et al., 2010) and are comparable with the Child Behaviour Check List (CBCL), a respected measure used in assessing childhood problems and clinical child psychiatric diagnoses (Goodman et al., 2000; Goodman and Scott, 1999; Stone et al., 2010).”
From Longitudinal associations between reading for pleasure and child maladjustment: Results from a propensity score matching analysis (2020) · cites this paper as Goodman and Scott, 1999
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“Goodman and Scott (1999) reported the SDQ scales were more highly correlated with interview-based ratings of clinical symptoms than the Child Behavior Checklist.”
From Prospective Relations between Family Conflict and Adolescent Maladjustment: Security in the Family System as a Mediating Process (2015) · cites this paper as Goodman and Scott (1999)
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“Additionally they found that the SDQ discriminated between high risk and low risk samples in support of criterion validity.”
From Prospective Relations between Family Conflict and Adolescent Maladjustment: Security in the Family System as a Mediating Process (2015) · cites this paper as Goodman and Scott (1999)
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Metadata
- 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
- Licence
- 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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