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Exploratory factor analyses on 569 Youth Self-Reports and 1,221 Teacher's Report Forms of clinically referred Dutch children revealed six and eight factors respectively, very similar to the eight YSR and TRF cross-informant syndromes derived by Achenbach (1991c, 1991d). Mean cross-cultural correlations were .89 for YSR syndromes and .95 for TRF syndromes. In confirmatory factor analyses of the Dutch and American YSR and TRF factor models in cross-validation samples of 570 YSRs and 1,221 TRFs, goodness-of-fit indices were only slightly better for Dutch factor models. The American cross-informant Social Problems and Attention Problems syndromes had the poorest fit. The application of the eight American cross-informant syndromes to Dutch self-and teacher reports was supported.
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We wish to thank Dr. Thomas Achenbach for his comments and advice on this article.
This research was supported by grants from the Sophia Foundation for Medical Research and from the Dutch National Program for Stimulation of Health Research.
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Groot, A.d., Koot, H.M. & Verhulst, F.C. Cross-cultural generalizability of the youth self-report and teacher's report form cross-informant syndromes. J Abnorm Child Psychol 24, 651–664 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01670105
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01670105