TY - JOUR
T1 - Syndromes of collateral-reported psychopathology for ages 18-59 in 18 Societies
AU - Ivanova, Masha Y.
AU - Achenbach, Thomas M.
AU - Rescorla, Leslie A.
AU - Turner, Lori V.
AU - Árnadóttir, Hervör Alma
AU - Au, May Lan Alma Mary Gerardina
AU - Caldas, J. Carlos
AU - Chaalal, Nebia
AU - Chen, Yi Chuen
AU - da Rocha, Marina M.
AU - Decoster, Jeroen
AU - Fontaine, Johnny R.J.
AU - Funabiki, Yasuko
AU - Gudmundsson, Halldór S.
AU - Kim, Young Ah
AU - Leung, Patrick
AU - Liu, Jianghong
AU - Malykh, Sergey
AU - Marković, Jasminka
AU - Oh, Kyung Ja
AU - Petot, Jean Michel
AU - Samaniego, Virginia C.
AU - Ferreira de Mattos Silvares, Edwiges
AU - Šimulioniene, Roma
AU - Šobot, Valentina
AU - Sokoli, Elvisa
AU - Sun, Guiju
AU - Talcott, Joel B.
AU - Vázquez, Natalia
AU - Zasepa, Ewa
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - The purpose was to advance research and clinical methodology for assessing psychopathology by testing the international generalizability of an 8-syndrome model derived from collateral ratings of adult behavioral, emotional, social, and thought problems. Collateral informants rated 8,582 18-59-year-old residents of 18 societies on the Adult Behavior Checklist (ABCL). Confirmatory factor analyses tested the fit of the 8-syndrome model to ratings from each society. The primary model fit index (Root Mean Square Error of Approximation) showed good model fit for all societies, while secondary indices (Tucker Lewis Index, Comparative Fit Index) showed acceptable to good fit for 17 societies. Factor loadings were robust across societies and items. Of the 5,007 estimated parameters, 4 (0.08%) were outside the admissible parameter space, but 95% confidence intervals included the admissible space, indicating that the 4 deviant parameters could be due to sampling fluctuations. The findings are consistent with previous evidence for the generalizability of the 8-syndrome model in self-ratings from 29 societies, and support the 8-syndrome model for operationalizing phenotypes of adult psychopathology from multi-informant ratings in diverse societies.
AB - The purpose was to advance research and clinical methodology for assessing psychopathology by testing the international generalizability of an 8-syndrome model derived from collateral ratings of adult behavioral, emotional, social, and thought problems. Collateral informants rated 8,582 18-59-year-old residents of 18 societies on the Adult Behavior Checklist (ABCL). Confirmatory factor analyses tested the fit of the 8-syndrome model to ratings from each society. The primary model fit index (Root Mean Square Error of Approximation) showed good model fit for all societies, while secondary indices (Tucker Lewis Index, Comparative Fit Index) showed acceptable to good fit for 17 societies. Factor loadings were robust across societies and items. Of the 5,007 estimated parameters, 4 (0.08%) were outside the admissible parameter space, but 95% confidence intervals included the admissible space, indicating that the 4 deviant parameters could be due to sampling fluctuations. The findings are consistent with previous evidence for the generalizability of the 8-syndrome model in self-ratings from 29 societies, and support the 8-syndrome model for operationalizing phenotypes of adult psychopathology from multi-informant ratings in diverse societies.
KW - Adult Behavior Checklist
KW - Collateral reports
KW - Descriptive survey study
KW - International
KW - Multicultural
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84920483908&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijchp.2014.07.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ijchp.2014.07.001
M3 - Journal article
VL - 15
SP - 18
EP - 28
JO - International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
JF - International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
SN - 1697-2600
IS - 1
ER -