Ivanova, Masha Y., Achenbach, Thomas M., Rescorla, Leslie A., Turner, Lori V., Ahmeti-Pronaj, Adelina, Au, Alma, Avila Maese, Carmen, Bellina, Monica, Caldas, J. Carlos, Chen, Yi-Chuen, Csemy, Ladislav, da Rocha, Marina M., Decoster, Jeroen, Dobrean, Anca, Ezpeleta, Lourdes, Fontaine, Johnny R.J., Funabiki, Yasuko, Guðmundsson, Halldór S., Harder, Valerie S., Leiner de la Cabada, Marie, Leung, Patrick, Liu, Jianghong, Mahr, Safia, Malykh, Sergey, Srdanovic Maras, Jelena, Markovic, Jasminka, Ndetei, David M., Oh, Kyung Ja, Petot, Jean-Michel, Riad, Geylan, Sakarya, Direnc, Samaniego, Virginia C., Sebre, Sandra, Shahini, Mimoza, Silvares, Edwiges, Simulioniene, Roma, Sokoli, Elvisa, Talcott, Joel B., Vázquez, Natalia and Zasępa, Ewa (2015). Syndromes of self-reported psychopathology for ages 18-59 in 29 societies. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 37 (2), pp. 171-183.
Abstract
This study tested the multi-society generalizability of an eight-syndrome assessment model derived from factor analyses of American adults' self-ratings of 120 behavioral, emotional, and social problems. The Adult Self-Report (ASR; Achenbach and Rescorla 2003) was completed by 17,152 18-59-year-olds in 29 societies. Confirmatory factor analyses tested the fit of self-ratings in each sample to the eight-syndrome model. The primary model fit index (Root Mean Square Error of Approximation) showed good model fit for all samples, while secondary indices showed acceptable to good fit. Only 5 (0.06%) of the 8,598 estimated parameters were outside the admissible parameter space. Confidence intervals indicated that sampling fluctuations could account for the deviant parameters. Results thus supported the tested model in societies differing widely in social, political, and economic systems, languages, ethnicities, religions, and geographical regions. Although other items, societies, and analytic methods might yield different results, the findings indicate that adults in very diverse societies were willing and able to rate themselves on the same standardized set of 120 problem items. Moreover, their self-ratings fit an eight-syndrome model previously derived from self-ratings by American adults. The support for the statistically derived syndrome model is consistent with previous findings for parent, teacher, and self-ratings of 11/2-18-year-olds in many societies. The ASR and its parallel collateral-report instrument, the Adult Behavior Checklist (ABCL), may offer mental health professionals practical tools for the multi-informant assessment of clinical constructs of adult psychopathology that appear to be meaningful across diverse societies.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-014-9448-8 |
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Divisions: | College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Psychology College of Health & Life Sciences > Clinical and Systems Neuroscience College of Health & Life Sciences > Aston Institute of Health & Neurodevelopment (AIHN) College of Health & Life Sciences College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Optometry > Vision, Hearing and Language |
Additional Information: | The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10862-014-9448-8 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | adult self-report,cross-cultural,international,psychopathology,syndromes,Clinical Psychology |
Publication ISSN: | 1573-3505 |
Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2024 08:01 |
Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2015 12:45 |
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Published Date: | 2015-06 |
Published Online Date: | 2014-08-08 |
Authors: |
Ivanova, Masha Y.
Achenbach, Thomas M. Rescorla, Leslie A. Turner, Lori V. Ahmeti-Pronaj, Adelina Au, Alma Avila Maese, Carmen Bellina, Monica Caldas, J. Carlos Chen, Yi-Chuen Csemy, Ladislav da Rocha, Marina M. Decoster, Jeroen Dobrean, Anca Ezpeleta, Lourdes Fontaine, Johnny R.J. Funabiki, Yasuko Guðmundsson, Halldór S. Harder, Valerie S. Leiner de la Cabada, Marie Leung, Patrick Liu, Jianghong Mahr, Safia Malykh, Sergey Srdanovic Maras, Jelena Markovic, Jasminka Ndetei, David M. Oh, Kyung Ja Petot, Jean-Michel Riad, Geylan Sakarya, Direnc Samaniego, Virginia C. Sebre, Sandra Shahini, Mimoza Silvares, Edwiges Simulioniene, Roma Sokoli, Elvisa Talcott, Joel B. ( 0000-0001-7958-8369) Vázquez, Natalia Zasępa, Ewa |