Refinement of the Children's Social Behavior Questionnaire (CSBQ): An Instrument that Describes the Diverse Problems Seen in Milder Forms of PDD

The objective of this study was to refine the Children's Social Behavior Questionnaire (CSBQ), to reduce its length, and to verify its psychometric properties. The CSBQ is a questionnaire for parents or caregivers of children with PDD. The items describe a broad range of features that are typic...

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Published in:Journal of autism and developmental disorders 2006-04, Vol.36 (3), p.325-342
Main Authors: Hartman, Catharina A, Luteijn, Ellen, Serra, Marike, Minderaa, Ruud
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Caregivers
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - diagnosis
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - epidemiology
Children
Control Groups
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Factor Analysis
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Female
Humans
Intellectual deficiency
Item Analysis
Judgment
Male
Mass Screening - methods
Medical sciences
Mild Disabilities
Parents
Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Program Improvement
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometric properties
Psychometrics
Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Questionnaires
Rater Reliability
Reproducibility of Results
Severity of Illness Index
Social Behavior
Social behaviour
Surveys and Questionnaires
Techniques and methods
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Summary:The objective of this study was to refine the Children's Social Behavior Questionnaire (CSBQ), to reduce its length, and to verify its psychometric properties. The CSBQ is a questionnaire for parents or caregivers of children with PDD. The items describe a broad range of features that are typical of PDD, particularly in its milder forms. Based on conceptual judgment and factor analyses, the number of items was reduced from 96 to 49. Six subscales were constructed to allow a differentiated description of PDD problems. Estimates for internal, test-retest, and inter-rater reliability, and for convergent and divergent validity were good. Different clinical and control groups showed the hypothesized patterns in nature and degree of their problems.
ISSN:0162-3257
1573-3432
DOI:10.1007/s10803-005-0072-z