The equivalence of the Child Behavior Checklist/1 1/2-5 across parent race/ethnicity, income level, and language |
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Authors: | Gross Deborah Fogg Louis Young Michael Ridge Alison Cowell Julia Muennich Richardson Reginald Sivan Abigail |
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Institution: | College of Nursing, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. deborah_a_gross@rush.edu |
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Abstract: | This study examined the equivalence of the Child Behavior Checklist/1 1/2-5 (CBCL/1 1/2-5) in 682 parents of 2- to 4-year-old children stratified by parent race/ethnicity (African American, Latino, and non-Latino White), family income (low vs. middle-upper), and language version (Spanish vs. English). Externalizing Scale means differed by income and child gender. Internalizing Scale means differed by income and parent race/ethnicity. Differential item analyses showed that few items functioned differently by racial/ethnic, language, and income group. A confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that the Externalizing Scale provided a good fit with the data across racial/ethnic and income groups. However, model fit was improved for the Internalizing Scale when factor weights were allowed to vary. Findings support the equivalence of the CBCL/1 1/2-5 when used with parents of low-income preschool children from African American and Latino backgrounds, although further study of the factor structure for the Internalizing Scale is recommended. |
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