Measurement structure of the Turkish translation of the Child Behavior Checklist using confirmatory factor analytic approaches to validation of syndromal constructs

Dumenci L., Erol N., Achenbach T., Simsek Z.

JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY, vol.32, no.3, pp.335-340, 2004 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 32 Issue: 3
  • Publication Date: 2004
  • Doi Number: 10.1023/b:jacp.0000026146.67290.07
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.335-340
  • Keywords: Child Behavior Checklist, Turkish, confirmatory factor analysis, syndrome validation, cross-cultural
  • Ankara University Affiliated: No

Abstract

The new correlated 8-factor measurement structure of the Child Behavior Checklist for ages 6-18 (CBCL/6-18; T. M. Achenbach & L. A. Rescorla, 2001) derived from an American sample was used as a benchmark to evaluate its generalizability to Turkish general population (N = 5; 195) and clinical (N = 963) samples. Item-level confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to evaluate the adequacy of the correlated 8-factor model across 3 sample conditions ( general population, clinical, and combined sample whose Total Problems scores were above the Turkish national median). The results supported the generalizability of the overall measurement structure of the CBCL to the Turkish population.