New evidence of factor structure and measurement invariance of the SDQ across five European nations
The main purpose of the present study was to test the internal structure and to study the measurement invariance of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), self-reported version, in five European countries. The sample consisted of 3012 adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years (M = 14.20;...
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| author | Ortuño-Sierra, Javier Fonseca-Pedrero, Eduardo Aritio-Solana, Rebeca Velasco, Alvaro Moreno de Luis, Edurne Chocarro Schumann, Gunter Cattrell, Anna Flor, Herta Nees, Frauke Banaschewski, Tobias Bokde, Arun Whelan, Rob Buechel, Christian Bromberg, Uli Conrod, Patricia Frouin, Vincent Papadopoulos, Dimitri Gallinat, Juergen Garavan, Hugh Heinz, Andreas Walter, Henrik Struve, Maren Gowland, Penny A. Paus, Tomáš Poustka, Luise Martinot, Jean-Luc Paillère-Martinot, Marie-Laure Vetter, Nora C. Smolka, Michael N. Lawrence, Claire |
| author_facet | Ortuño-Sierra, Javier Fonseca-Pedrero, Eduardo Aritio-Solana, Rebeca Velasco, Alvaro Moreno de Luis, Edurne Chocarro Schumann, Gunter Cattrell, Anna Flor, Herta Nees, Frauke Banaschewski, Tobias Bokde, Arun Whelan, Rob Buechel, Christian Bromberg, Uli Conrod, Patricia Frouin, Vincent Papadopoulos, Dimitri Gallinat, Juergen Garavan, Hugh Heinz, Andreas Walter, Henrik Struve, Maren Gowland, Penny A. Paus, Tomáš Poustka, Luise Martinot, Jean-Luc Paillère-Martinot, Marie-Laure Vetter, Nora C. Smolka, Michael N. Lawrence, Claire |
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| description | The main purpose of the present study was to test the internal structure and to study the measurement invariance of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), self-reported version, in five European countries. The sample consisted of 3012 adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years (M = 14.20; SD = 0.83). The five-factor model (with correlated errors added), and the five-factor model (with correlated errors added) with the reverse-worded items allowed to cross-load on the Prosocial subscale, displayed adequate goodness of-fit indices. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis showed that the five-factor model had partial strong measurement invariance by countries. A total of 11 of the 25 items were non-invariant across samples. The level of internal consistency of the Total difficulties scores was .84, ranging between .69 and .78 for the SDQ subscales. The findings indicate that the SDQ's scales need to be modified in various ways for screening emotional and behavioural problems in the five European countries that were analyzed. |
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| spelling | nottingham-298462020-05-04T17:11:30Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29846/ New evidence of factor structure and measurement invariance of the SDQ across five European nations Ortuño-Sierra, Javier Fonseca-Pedrero, Eduardo Aritio-Solana, Rebeca Velasco, Alvaro Moreno de Luis, Edurne Chocarro Schumann, Gunter Cattrell, Anna Flor, Herta Nees, Frauke Banaschewski, Tobias Bokde, Arun Whelan, Rob Buechel, Christian Bromberg, Uli Conrod, Patricia Frouin, Vincent Papadopoulos, Dimitri Gallinat, Juergen Garavan, Hugh Heinz, Andreas Walter, Henrik Struve, Maren Gowland, Penny A. Paus, Tomáš Poustka, Luise Martinot, Jean-Luc Paillère-Martinot, Marie-Laure Vetter, Nora C. Smolka, Michael N. Lawrence, Claire The main purpose of the present study was to test the internal structure and to study the measurement invariance of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), self-reported version, in five European countries. The sample consisted of 3012 adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years (M = 14.20; SD = 0.83). The five-factor model (with correlated errors added), and the five-factor model (with correlated errors added) with the reverse-worded items allowed to cross-load on the Prosocial subscale, displayed adequate goodness of-fit indices. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis showed that the five-factor model had partial strong measurement invariance by countries. A total of 11 of the 25 items were non-invariant across samples. The level of internal consistency of the Total difficulties scores was .84, ranging between .69 and .78 for the SDQ subscales. The findings indicate that the SDQ's scales need to be modified in various ways for screening emotional and behavioural problems in the five European countries that were analyzed. Springer 2015-06-03 Article PeerReviewed Ortuño-Sierra, Javier, Fonseca-Pedrero, Eduardo, Aritio-Solana, Rebeca, Velasco, Alvaro Moreno, de Luis, Edurne Chocarro, Schumann, Gunter, Cattrell, Anna, Flor, Herta, Nees, Frauke, Banaschewski, Tobias, Bokde, Arun, Whelan, Rob, Buechel, Christian, Bromberg, Uli, Conrod, Patricia, Frouin, Vincent, Papadopoulos, Dimitri, Gallinat, Juergen, Garavan, Hugh, Heinz, Andreas, Walter, Henrik, Struve, Maren, Gowland, Penny A., Paus, Tomáš, Poustka, Luise, Martinot, Jean-Luc, Paillère-Martinot, Marie-Laure, Vetter, Nora C., Smolka, Michael N. and Lawrence, Claire (2015) New evidence of factor structure and measurement invariance of the SDQ across five European nations. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry . ISSN 1018-8827 SDQ · Self-report · Adolescents · Factorial structure · Measurement invariance · Behavioural problems http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-015-0729-x doi:10.1007/s00787-015-0729-x doi:10.1007/s00787-015-0729-x |
| spellingShingle | SDQ · Self-report · Adolescents · Factorial structure · Measurement invariance · Behavioural problems Ortuño-Sierra, Javier Fonseca-Pedrero, Eduardo Aritio-Solana, Rebeca Velasco, Alvaro Moreno de Luis, Edurne Chocarro Schumann, Gunter Cattrell, Anna Flor, Herta Nees, Frauke Banaschewski, Tobias Bokde, Arun Whelan, Rob Buechel, Christian Bromberg, Uli Conrod, Patricia Frouin, Vincent Papadopoulos, Dimitri Gallinat, Juergen Garavan, Hugh Heinz, Andreas Walter, Henrik Struve, Maren Gowland, Penny A. Paus, Tomáš Poustka, Luise Martinot, Jean-Luc Paillère-Martinot, Marie-Laure Vetter, Nora C. Smolka, Michael N. Lawrence, Claire New evidence of factor structure and measurement invariance of the SDQ across five European nations |
| title | New evidence of factor structure and measurement invariance of the SDQ across five European nations |
| title_full | New evidence of factor structure and measurement invariance of the SDQ across five European nations |
| title_fullStr | New evidence of factor structure and measurement invariance of the SDQ across five European nations |
| title_full_unstemmed | New evidence of factor structure and measurement invariance of the SDQ across five European nations |
| title_short | New evidence of factor structure and measurement invariance of the SDQ across five European nations |
| title_sort | new evidence of factor structure and measurement invariance of the sdq across five european nations |
| topic | SDQ · Self-report · Adolescents · Factorial structure · Measurement invariance · Behavioural problems |
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