The Construct Validity of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for Aboriginal Children Living in Urban New South Wales, Australia

Williamson, Anna; McElduff, Patrick; Dadds, Mark R.; DʼEste, Catherine; Redman, Sally; Raphael, Beverley; Daniels, John; Eades, Sandra

doi:10.1111/ap.12045

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“…However, altered SDQ connotations are suggested, for example, by the failure of the item better with adults , to load in five translation studies. Although scored as a problem item in the UK SDQ, better relationships with adults were viewed as a positive attribute by Australian Indigenous parents (Williamson et al, ), and as evidence of maturity by Thai parents (Woerner, Nuanmanee, Becker, Wongpiromsarn, & Mongkol, .…”

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Review of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire translated into languages spoken by children and adolescents of refugee background

Stolk

Kaplan

Szwarc

2017

Int J Methods Psych Res

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The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), routinely used to screen for children's and adolescents' emotional and behavioural problems, has been translated into at least 80 languages. As children of refugee background are particularly vulnerable to mental health problems resulting from their refugee experiences, this review examines whether SDQs translated into languages spoken by major refugee groups are validated and culturally equivalent to the original SDQ and sensitive to change following interventions. No reviewed studies of translated SDQs reported on challenges in achieving conceptual and linguistic equivalence in translation. Factor analysis predominantly showed structural inequivalence with the original 5-factor model, suggesting translated SDQ subscales may measure different constructs. Predictive equivalence findings tended to show somewhat higher sensitivity for detecting disorder than the original SDQ's low sensitivity, and somewhat lower specificity. Outcome studies yielded equivocal results with refugee and immigrant groups. SDQ items do not detect the psychological sequelae of trauma; hence it is recommended that the SDQ be used with caution to screen refugee children, with a follow-up clinical interview for verification. Cross-cultural qualitative research is needed into parents' and adolescents' interpretation of translated SDQ items.

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Review of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire translated into languages spoken by children and adolescents of refugee background

Stolk

Kaplan

Szwarc

2017

Int J Methods Psych Res

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“…Twenty-seven studies evaluated the structural validity of the SDQ as specified by Goodman, of which 17 used a CFA and were included (Table 3 and Supplementary file 2, median sample size 1068, range 129-56864) [24,35,38,39,43,[45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56]. One study carried out a CFA on each of the SDQ scales and is therefore not included in table 3 [54].…”

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A systematic review of evidence for the psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

Kersten

Czuba

McPherson

et al. 2015

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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Objective: A systematic review aiming to identify and critically appraise evidence for the validity and reliability of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in pre-school children (aged 3-5). Method:The review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta- Results: 41 studies were included (56 manuscripts). Two qualitative studies examined content and cultural validity, revealing issues with some questions. Six studies discussed language validations and recommended some changes to the wording. Evidence for discriminative validity was good (Area Under the Curve ≥ 0.80) as was evidence for convergent validity (weighted average correlation coefficients ≥0.50), except for the Pro-social scale. There was limited support for discriminant validity but good evidence for the 5-factor structural validity of the tool. One study demonstrated measurement invariance across ethnicity. Sensitivity was below 70% and specificity above 70% in most studies that examined this. One study showed that caseness indicators varied between countries. Internal consistency of the total difficulty scale was good (weighted average Cronbach's alpha parents' and teachers' version 0.79 and 0.82) but weaker for other subscales (weighted average parents' and teachers' range 0.49-0.69 and 0.69-0.83). Inter-rater reliability between parents was moderate (correlation coefficients range 0.42-0.64) and between teachers strong (range 0.59-0.81). Cross-informant consistency was weak to moderate (weighted average correlation coefficients range 0.25-0.45).Test-retest reliability was mostly inadequate. One study demonstrated moderate size effect sizes.Conclusions: Evidence for a number of psychometric properties is strong. However, the lack of evidence for test-retest reliability, cultural validity and criterion validity should be addressed given the wide-spread implementation of the tool in routine clinical practice, including in New Zealand. Furthermore, the moderate level of consistency between different informants indicate that an assessment of a pre-schooler should not rely on a single informant.

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“…Although social desirability may explain a tendency for children to exaggerate prosociality, the high consistency in child response suggest that carers and children may draw on different definitions of prosocial behaviour (Hay and Pawlby, 2003; Williamson et al, 2014). Furthermore, differing levels of clinical risk in this study may be explained cross-culturally through collectivist orientations that view helping others as a duty rather than a personal choice (Skovdal and Ogutu, 2009).…”

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“…Studies employing the Prosocial scale have noted the potential to provide greater insight into appropriate child behaviour across cultures (Williamson et al, 2014). However, limitations are noted in the use of a single (5-item) instrument, despite the adequate psychometric properties in this sample.…”

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Child prosociality within HIV-affected contexts: the impact of carer ill-health and orphan status

Tucker

Govender

Kuo

et al. 2016

Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies

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Considerable attention has been provided to the potential adverse outcomes for youth in the context of HIV and AIDS. Using data from a large community-based study on the psychosocial well-being of youth affected by HIV and AIDS, this paper advances a strength-based, resiliency perspective that is centred on the construct of prosociality. Data was derived from the Young Carers South Africa Project, where a cross-sectional household survey was conducted with 2,477 child-carer pairs in an HIV endemic community in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Analysis in this paper focuses on a subset of 2,136 child-carer pairs. Perceptions of child prosociality were assessed using the Prosocial Scale of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Both child and carer responses were obtained to provide insight into the functioning of carer-child dyads. Descriptive and inferential analysis was conducted to explore ratings of child prosociality across different relational contexts affected by HIV and involving care for orphaned youths. Dual-affected households, where carers are ill with opportunistic infections and youth are orphaned due to AIDS, yielded the highest discrepancies with carers reporting low child prosociality and children self-reporting high prosociality. Carer ill health appears to play a role in differentiating child prosociality across relational contexts involving non-orphaned youth. Further research is needed to explore child prosociality as a protective mechanism in high HIV-endemic communities.

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The Construct Validity of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for Aboriginal Children Living in Urban New South Wales, Australia

Cited by 49 publications

References 44 publications

Review of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire translated into languages spoken by children and adolescents of refugee background

Review of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire translated into languages spoken by children and adolescents of refugee background

A systematic review of evidence for the psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

Child prosociality within HIV-affected contexts: the impact of carer ill-health and orphan status

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