A Preliminary Study of the Influences on Response Stability of the Interactive Dominic/Terry Questionnaire

Shillingsburg, M. Alice; Ragsdale, Kevin; Sikorski, Jason F.

doi:10.52214/gsjp.v10i.10831

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“…Because this child self-report instrument combines auditory, visual, and textual modalities using the computer, it can be administered without any intervening adult (parent or interviewer) and therefore, it is pre-eminently appropriate for measuring mental health in primary school children. The Dominic Interactive has well-established psychometric properties (Kuijpers et al 2013(Kuijpers et al , 2014Linares Scott et al 2006;Shillingsburg et al 2008;Shojaei et al 2009;Valla et al 2002). A prior paper version has been used before to determine child internalizing and externalizing problems in relation to maternal mental health, although not in a longitudinal design (Piche ´et al 2011).…”

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Child Self-report to Identify Internalizing and Externalizing Problems and the Influence of Maternal Mental Health

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The continuity, co-occurrence, and co-development of child internalizing and externalizing problems have been extensively studied and considered to be causally related either directly (directional model) or indirectly through an underlying shared or related liability factor (common vulnerability model). This study used child selfreport to avoid rater bias in determining the continuity and cross-development of child internalizing and externalizing problems over a 1-year period, examining both direct pathway and indirect pathway by using maternal mental health as underlying explanatory mechanism. The Dominic Interactive, a computerized child self-report instrument, was used to assess internalizing and externalizing problems in 178 primary school children, aged 6-11 years old, over a 1-year time interval. Their mothers reported on their own maternal mental health at baseline. A cross-lagged path model was tested using Structural Equation Modeling. The results confirmed the stability of child-reported internalizing and externalizing problems but showed no crossdevelopmental paths. Maternal mental health at baseline was related to child externalizing behavior 1 year later. The theoretical explanations involve the developmental timing of the cross-developmental paths and the strong cooccurrence of internalizing and externalizing problems at both time-points. This study showed the value of the Dominic Interactive as a child self-report instrument in addition to other informant measures in assessing child mental health problems over longer periods, especially when maternal mental health is involved. Furthermore, deprived maternal mental health warrants clinical attention to prevent externalizing problems in primary school children.

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Reliability and Construct Validity of a Child Self-Report Instrument

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Both clinicians and researchers agree on the value of self-report in child mental health assessment. The pictorial format of the computerized Dominic Interactive is an addition to the existing questionnaires, specifically concerning young children. Although prior studies on the Dominic Interactive reported favorable psychometric properties, the reliability was not always satisfactory for every scale, and no studies confirmed the proposed DSM-IV factor structure of the Dominic Interactive. This study examines these two psychometric aspects using a sample of 1,504 Dutch primary-school children aged 6–13 years. α was computed and compared with ω, an alternative index of reliability. CFA was conducted as was the measurement invariance at a configural, scalar, and metric level across both age and sex. The results showed that ω values were above .80, indicating good to high reliability for all scales. The DSM-IV factor structure was confirmed and proved to be identical across age groups and among both boys and girls in this sample. These findings lay the foundation for the meaningful use of the norms needed in clinical practice. They also contribute to the increasing value of the Dominic Interactive as a self-report instrument in child mental health screening.

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A Preliminary Study of the Influences on Response Stability of the Interactive Dominic/Terry Questionnaire

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Child Self-report to Identify Internalizing and Externalizing Problems and the Influence of Maternal Mental Health

Child Self-report to Identify Internalizing and Externalizing Problems and the Influence of Maternal Mental Health

Reliability and Construct Validity of a Child Self-Report Instrument

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