TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychometric properties of the child behavior checklist/2-3 in an Arab population
AU - Yunis, Feisal
AU - Eapen, Valsamma
AU - Zoubeidi, Taoufik
AU - Yousef, Saeed
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Professor D. H. Peregrine and Professor C. Kharif for much valuable advice and fruitful discussions and to Professor M. Tanaka who kindly placed at our disposal his program for calculating Stokes ?>waves. This research was supported by INTAS Grant ?>No. 99-1637 and partially by INTAS YSF No. 2001/2-114.
PY - 2007/6
Y1 - 2007/6
N2 - Child Behavior Checklist 2-3 is a parents' report questionnaire whose psychometric properties are known in the Western setting, but no studies have investigated this in an Arabic culture. In this study, the psychometric properties of the Arabic translation were studied using a sample of 694 children age 3 yr., ascertained as part of a community-based epidemiological study in the United Arab Emirates. The item-total correlations for items were satisfactory, ranging from .16 to .58. Cronbach alpha values for reliability ranged from .70 to .88 for the subscales and .93 for the Total score. The test-retest reliability coefficient for the Total score was .83. The validity was also high as 94.1% of those who scored above the cut-off point were classified correctly by a blind clinical interview. The results suggest that Child Behavior Checklist 2-3 is a reliable and valid checklist for use in the Arabic culture.
AB - Child Behavior Checklist 2-3 is a parents' report questionnaire whose psychometric properties are known in the Western setting, but no studies have investigated this in an Arabic culture. In this study, the psychometric properties of the Arabic translation were studied using a sample of 694 children age 3 yr., ascertained as part of a community-based epidemiological study in the United Arab Emirates. The item-total correlations for items were satisfactory, ranging from .16 to .58. Cronbach alpha values for reliability ranged from .70 to .88 for the subscales and .93 for the Total score. The test-retest reliability coefficient for the Total score was .83. The validity was also high as 94.1% of those who scored above the cut-off point were classified correctly by a blind clinical interview. The results suggest that Child Behavior Checklist 2-3 is a reliable and valid checklist for use in the Arabic culture.
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U2 - 10.2466/PR0.100.3.771-776
DO - 10.2466/PR0.100.3.771-776
M3 - Article
C2 - 17688092
AN - SCOPUS:34547265085
SN - 0033-2941
VL - 100
SP - 771
EP - 776
JO - Psychological Reports
JF - Psychological Reports
IS - 3 I
ER -