Is It Prudent to Administer All Items for Each Child Behavior Checklist Cross-Informant Syndrome? Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of the Youth Self-Report Dimensions with Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Item Response Theory

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 550-568

  Lambert, Michael Canute ^a   Schmitt, Neal ^b   Samms Vaughan, Maureen E ^c   An, Jeong Shin ^a   Fairclough, Maureen ^c   Nutter, Cristine A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; RATING SCALE; SAMPLING; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; THEORY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAMAICA; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0347379822     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.15.4.550     Document Type: Article

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