TY - JOUR
T1 - Mental health among children and adolescents
T2 - construct validity, reliability, and parent-adolescent agreement on the ‘Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire’ in Chile
AU - Gaete, Jorge
AU - Montero-Marin, Jesus
AU - Valenzuela, Daniela
AU - Rojas-Barahona, Cristian A.
AU - Olivares, Esterbina
AU - Araya, Ricardo
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by: 1. Joint project—New Learning Environments and Technologies—AKA-EDU/15, Academy of Finland (http://www.aka.fi/en) and CONICYT, Chile (http:// www.conicyt.cl) to JG; 2. Chilean National Grant for Research and Development in Health—FONIS-EVS-13I0100, CONICYT, Chile (http://www.conicyt. cl) to JG. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Gaete et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2018/2/5
Y1 - 2018/2/5
N2 - The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a screening tool used to measure psychological functioning among children and adolescents. It has been extensively used worldwide, but its psychometric properties, such as internal structure and reliability, seem to vary across countries. This is the first study exploring the construct validity and reliability of the Spanish version of SDQ among early adolescents (self-reported) and their parents in Latin America. A total of 1,284 early adolescents (9–15 years) and their parents answered the SDQ. We also collected demographic variables. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to assess the latent structure of the SDQ. We also used the multitrait-multimethod analysis to separate the true variance on the constructs from variance resulting from measurement methods (self-report vs. parent report), and evaluated the agreement between adolescents and their parents. We found that the original five-factor model was a good solution and the resulting sub-scales had good internal consistency. We also found that the self-reported and parental versions of SDQ provide different information, which are complementary and provide a better picture of the emotional, social, and conduct problems of adolescents. We have added evidence for the construct validity and reliability of the Spanish self-reported and parental SDQ versions in a Chilean sample.
AB - The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a screening tool used to measure psychological functioning among children and adolescents. It has been extensively used worldwide, but its psychometric properties, such as internal structure and reliability, seem to vary across countries. This is the first study exploring the construct validity and reliability of the Spanish version of SDQ among early adolescents (self-reported) and their parents in Latin America. A total of 1,284 early adolescents (9–15 years) and their parents answered the SDQ. We also collected demographic variables. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to assess the latent structure of the SDQ. We also used the multitrait-multimethod analysis to separate the true variance on the constructs from variance resulting from measurement methods (self-report vs. parent report), and evaluated the agreement between adolescents and their parents. We found that the original five-factor model was a good solution and the resulting sub-scales had good internal consistency. We also found that the self-reported and parental versions of SDQ provide different information, which are complementary and provide a better picture of the emotional, social, and conduct problems of adolescents. We have added evidence for the construct validity and reliability of the Spanish self-reported and parental SDQ versions in a Chilean sample.
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Child
KW - Chile
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Mental health
KW - Parent-Child Relations
KW - Psychometrics
KW - Surveys and questionnaires
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0191809
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0191809
M3 - Article
C2 - 29401472
AN - SCOPUS:85041417605
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 18
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 2
M1 - e0191809
ER -