The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Early evidence of its reliability and validity in a community sample of Italian children

Riso, Daniela Di; Salcuni, Silvia; Chessa, Daphne; Raudino, Alessandra; Lis, Adriana; Altoè, Gianmarco

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.05.005

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“…Goodman, 1997Goodman, , 2001). Sound psychometric properties for parent-report SDQ (ages 4-16 years) and self-report SDQ (ages 11-16 years) are well established in community and clinical samples (Goodman et al, 2001(Goodman et al, , 2010; and self-report versions have been utilised with children as young as 8 years (Muris et al 2004;Di Riso et al, 2010) with preserved reliability and validity, yielding a consistent factor structure (van Roy et al 2008), comparable internal consistency and test-retest reliability (Muris et al 2003), and demonstrated criterion validity in discriminating between children with and without psychiatric problems (Muris et al, 2004).…”

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Persisting psychotic-like experiences are associated with both externalising and internalising psychopathology in a longitudinal general population child cohort

Downs

Cullen

Barragán

et al. 2013

Schizophrenia Research

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Downs, J. (2013). Persisting psychotic-like experiences are associated with both externalising and internalising psychopathology in a longitudinal general population child cohort. Schizophrenia Research, 144(1-3), 99-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2012.12.009Citing this paper Please note that where the full-text provided on King's Research Portal is the Author Accepted Manuscript or Post-Print version this may differ from the final Published version. If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination, volume/issue, and date of publication details. And where the final published version is provided on the Research Portal, if citing you are again advised to check the publisher's website for any subsequent corrections. General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the Research Portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognize and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.•Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the Research Portal for the purpose of private study or research.•You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain •You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the Research Portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact librarypure@kcl.ac.uk providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Background: Persisting psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) are associated with an increased risk of internalising symptoms in adolescence. Whether this association holds similarly for externalising symptoms, and from mid-childhood, is unclear. This prospective study investigated the extent to which PLE persistence was associated with internalising and externalising psychopathology in a community sample of children aged 9-11 years at study commencement. Methods: 8099 children (mean age 10.4 years) completed questionnaires assessing PLEs, externalising and internalising symptoms. A subsample of 547 children completed reassessment, on average, two years later. Results: Two-thirds (66%) of children reported PLEs at baseline. Approximately two years later, PLEs persisted in 39% of those children. After adjustment for previous psychopathology and other potential confounds, children with persisting PLEs were at higher risk for internalising (odds ratio [OR]=1.94; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.13-3.34) and externalising (OR=1.97; 95% CI 1.19-3.26) psychopathology than children whose PLEs remitted; and, than children who never presented PLEs. Conclusions: Persistent PLEs from mid-childhood are associated with later internalising and externalising psychopathology in the general population, whereas transitory PLEs may be part of a spectrum of normative childhood development. Interventions that target persistent PLEs may contribute to a reduction in common chi...

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Persisting psychotic-like experiences are associated with both externalising and internalising psychopathology in a longitudinal general population child cohort

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Cullen

Barragán

et al. 2013

Schizophrenia Research

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“…Previous studies, conducted using confirmatory factor analysis, showed the five-factor solution as the most appropriate [27,24,11,28,29,25], while others found the three-factor model [30][31][32]11]. The threefactor solution is composed by Internalizing symptoms, resulting of the Emotional and Peer problems subscales, the Externalizing symptoms, composed by Conduct problems and Hyperactivity subscales, and the Prosocial subscale.…”

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New evidence of factor structure and measurement invariance of the SDQ across five European nations

Ortuño‐Sierra

Fonseca‐Pedrero

Solana

et al. 2015

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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International audienceThe main purpose of the present study was to analyse the internal structure and to test the measurement invariance of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), self-reported version, in five European countries. The sample consisted of 3012 adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years (M = 14.20; SD = 0.83). The five-factor model (with correlated errors added), and the five-factor model (with correlated errors added) with the reverse-worded items allowed to cross-load on the Prosocial subscale, displayed adequate goodness of-fit indices. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis showed that the five-factor model (with correlated errors added) had partial strong measurement invariance by countries. A total of 11 of the 25 items were non-invariant across samples. The level of internal consistency of the Total difficulties score was 0.84, ranging between 0.69 and 0.78 for the SDQ subscales. The findings indicate that the SDQ's subscales need to be modified in various ways for screening emotional and behavioural problems in the five European countries that were analysed

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“…The SCAS consists of six subscales: separation anxiety, social phobia, obsessiveused without incurring any expense. Finally, the SDQ has been reported to have good reliability and validity [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15].…”

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“…Studies conducted in Australia [10], Cyprus [9], the Netherlands [11,12,14], China [15], France [8], Germany [9], Sweden [9], and Italy [9,13] have reported the Cronbach's Alpha for the total SDQ difficulty scores to range from 0.70 to 0.81.…”

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“…Of all the difficulty subscales, internalising problems had the highest internal consistency coefficients (0.61), followed by externalising problems (0.52). As the reversed items have been reported to confound the SDQ factors [13,31], the internal consistency of the SDQ-U total difficulties score and the three factors were analysed without the reversed items (i.e., items 7, 11, 14, 21 and 25). The internal consistency values of the total difficulties score (Cronbach's alpha=0.71) and the prosocial behaviour subscale (Cronbach's alpha=0.65) improved after removing the reversed items.…”

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Factor Structure of the Urdu Version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in Pakistani Adolescents

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2017

Acta Psychopathol

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The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Early evidence of its reliability and validity in a community sample of Italian children

Cited by 144 publications

References 24 publications

Persisting psychotic-like experiences are associated with both externalising and internalising psychopathology in a longitudinal general population child cohort

Persisting psychotic-like experiences are associated with both externalising and internalising psychopathology in a longitudinal general population child cohort

New evidence of factor structure and measurement invariance of the SDQ across five European nations

Factor Structure of the Urdu Version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in Pakistani Adolescents

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