A Short Form of the Portuguese Version of the Youth Self-Report |
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Authors: | Diana Cruz Isabel Narciso Cícero Roberto Pereira Daniel Sampaio |
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Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013, Lisbon, Portugal 2. Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal 3. Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Abstract: | The youth self-report (YSR), which is theoretically based in the field of developmental psychopathology and follows a dimensional approach, is an important instrument to assess the behavioral and emotional problems and the psychosocial competencies of adolescents between the ages of 11 and 18 years in both clinical and research contexts. Our main aims were to propose a short form of the YSR, conduct a first validation study, and compare the short-form YSR with the full version of the Portuguese YSR. We conducted the first study (Study 1) in a sample of 1,266 Portuguese community adolescents between the ages of 11 and 21 years to analyze the factor structure of the YSR. We conducted the second study (Study 2) in a sample of 302 community adolescents between the ages of 11 and 21 years to validate the factor structure of the short form of the YSR, which consisted of 33 items that focused on the dimensions of internalization-depression, internalization-anxiety, externalization-destructiveness and externalization-exhibitionism. Our findings confirmed that the YSR-SF provides a good fit to the data, explains similarly the variance on several criteria compared with the longer version, and is sensitive to sex and age differences. |
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