Diagnostic specificity and nonspecificity in the dimensions of preschool psychopathology

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1005-1013

  Sterba, Sonya ^a,c   Egger, Helen L ^b   Angold, Adrian ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Confirmatory factor analysis; DSM; Internal validity; Nosology; Preschool children; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; COMORBIDITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; IMPULSIVENESS; INTERNAL VALIDITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PRESCHOOL AGE PSYCHIATRIC ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SYMPTOM;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ANXIETY, SEPARATION; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34948820623     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01770.x     Document Type: Article

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