Normative data and scale properties of the German parent SDQ
Normative data and scale properties of the German parent SDQ
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DOI：
10.1007/s00787-004-2002-6
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发表时间：
2004-01-01
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6.4
通讯作者：
Rothenberger, A
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作者：
Woerner, W;Becker, A;Rothenberger, A
背景和目的优势和困难问卷（SDQ）是一个简短的评估工具，它解决了儿童和青少年的积极和消极的行为属性，并产生临床相关方面的分数。尽管这份简短的问卷已在德国广泛使用，以收集家长、教师和年龄较大的儿童本身的信息，但德国版本获得的规范性结果尚未向国际科学界报告。为了让SDQ的结果在其他国家的比较，规范性数据为德国父母的评分形式，以及基于社区的评价规模的属性进行了总结和补充的结果，在一些临床samples.Methods父母评级收集了一个基于社区的样本930名儿童和青少年年龄在6至16岁，其中男女和各年龄层的代表人数相等。心理测量特性的统计评价包括验证拟议的规模结构，评估规模的同质性，并确定年龄，性别和社会阶层的影响因素分析。SDQ分数的分布观察到在这个规范的样本，建议的乐队识别正常，边界，和临床范围的定义为每个scale.Results精确复制的原始规模结构，令人满意的内部可靠性，并观察预期的协会与年龄和性别证实了德国SDQ家长问卷与英文原版的等效性。社区为基础的结果和临床组之间的差异提供了描述性证据的一个戏剧性的影响，临床定义的精神状态SDQ scores.Conclusions父母评价后，在社区为基础的样本，德国SDQ被证明具有良好的心理测量特性。因此，德语翻译的这一流行和多功能的工具似乎是一个同样可靠和有用的评估工具，作为原来的英文问卷。
Background and objectives The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a short assessment instrument which addresses positive and negative behavioural attributes of children and adolescents and generates scores for clinically relevant aspects. Although this brief questionnaire has been widely used in Germany to gather information from parents, teachers, and older children themselves, normative results obtained with the German version have not yet been reported to the international scientific community. To allow comparisons with SDQ findings in other countries, normative data for the German parent-rated form as well as a community-based evaluation of scale properties are summarised and complemented by results obtained in a number of clinical samples.Methods Parent ratings were collected for a community-based sample of 930 children and adolescents aged between 6 and 16 years, in which both genders and all age levels were equally represented. Statistical evaluation of psychometric properties included a factor analysis verifying the proposed scale structure, assessment of scale homogeneities, and determination of age, gender and social class effects. Based on the distributions of SDQ scores observed in this normative sample, recommended bandings identifying normal, borderline, and clinical ranges were defined for each scale.Results Exact replication of the original scale structure, satisfactory internal reliabilities, and observation of the expected associations with age and gender confirmed the equivalence of the German SDQ parent questionnaire with the English original. Differences between community-based results and clinical groups provided descriptive evidence of a dramatic impact of clinically defined psychiatric status on SDQ scores.Conclusions After evaluating parent ratings obtained in a community-based sample, the German SDQ was shown to possess favourable psychometric properties. Thus, the German translation of this popular and versatile instrument seems to be a similarly reliable and useful assessment tool as the original English questionnaire.