Psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire.

By Robert Goodman. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2001

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Parenting Gifted and Talented Children: Conceptual and Empirical Foundations (2009, methodology): “5%) rated their child as experiencing clinically significant problems in behavior and adjustment, using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (Goodman, 2001).”
A lifespan perspective on attachment and care for others: Empathy, altruism, and prosocial behavior (2016, methodology): “…measure of secure attachment to parents (the parent scale of the revised IPPA; Gullone & Robinson, 2005) also reported being more empathic (using the Index of Empathy for Children and Adolescents; Bryant, 1982) and prosocial (using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; SDQ; Goodman, 2001).”
Engaging parents in parenting programs: Lessons from research and practice (2012, background): “Children needed to be aged 3–4 and score above the ‘high need’ threshold on the ‘Total difficulties’ score of the parent-completed Strengths andDifficulties Questionnaire (SDQ;Goodman, 2001).”
School Connectedness Is an Underemphasized Parameter in Adolescent Mental Health: Results of a Community Prediction Study (2006, background): “The youth self-report version has been found to have a similar five-factor structure and generally similar internal reliabilities to the parent and teacher report versions (Goodman, 2001) with total scale reliability of .80 (Goodman, 2001) or .82 (Goodman, Meltzer, & Bailey, 1998).”
Multicultural assessment of child and adolescent psychopathology with ASEBA and SDQ instruments: research findings, applications, and future directions. (2008, background): “Alphas for 9,998 Parent SDQs, 7,313 Teacher SDQs, and 3,983 Youth SDQs in a British general population sample (Goodman, 2001).”
Psychometric Properties of the PsychoSomatic Problems Scale: A Rasch Analysis on Adolescent Data (2008, background): “In psychiatric orientated epidemiological research among children and adolescents the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach 1991a, b) and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire ( Goodman 2001; Hagquist 2007) are the predominant instruments.”
Assessing Resilience Across Cultures Using Mixed Methods: Construction of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (2011, methodology): “Studies of resilience either employ standardized measures such as the subscales of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (Goodman, 2001) to measure the prevalence of behaviors and cognitions thought to be congruent with positive development or develop their own scales based on reviews of the…”
A Systematic Review of School-Based Social-Emotional Interventions for Refugee and War-Traumatized Youth (2016, background): “This brief screener assesses both psychopathology and strengths, with items tapping five factors: emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity-inattention, peer problems, and personal School-Based Interventions for Refugees strengths (Goodman, 2001).”
Reactive and Regulative Temperament in Youths: Psychometric Evaluation of the Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire-Revised (2009, methodology): “The self-report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman 2001) consists of 25 items”
Behavioural inhibition and behavioural activation system scales for children: Relationships with Eysenck's personality traits and psychopathological symptoms (2005, methodology): “The self-report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ-C; Goodman, 2001) consists of 25 items describing positive and negative attributes of children.”
Exploring a Mindfulness Meditation Program on the Mental Health of Upper Primary Children: A Pilot Study (2010, methodology): “This part of the test has high internal consistency (Cronbach a 0.80) and is predictive of psychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety using DSM-IV classifications (R Goodman, 2001).”
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Adolescent Depression: A Pilot Study in a Psychiatric Outpatient Setting (2011, background): “The full scale of the youth self-report version has sound reliability at α=.80 ( Goodman 2001 ) and is considered a valid screen for psychopathology (Goodman et al. 2003a).”
A Comparison of Teacher Nomination and Screening to Identify Behavioral and Emotional Risk Within a Sample of Underrepresented Students (2013, background): “…such as the Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BESS; Kamphaus & Reynolds, 2007), the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman, 1997, 1999, 2001), and the Student Risk Screening Scale (SRSS; Drummond, 1994), contain teacher rating scales that, instead of asking…”
A developmental propensity model of the origins of conduct problems during childhood and adolescence. (2003, background): “, Goodman, S. H., Waldman, I. D., Canino, G., Rathouz, P. J., Miller, T. L., Dennis, K. D., Bird, H., & Jensen, P. S. (2000). Age and gender differences in oppositional behavior and conduct problems: A cross-sectional household study of middle childhood and adolescence. Journal of Abnormal Psycholog”
Cyber-Victimisation: The Association Between Help-Seeking Behaviours and Self-Reported Emotional Symptoms in Australia and Austria (2010, methodology): “Assessment of Emotional Symptoms — Australia and Austria Students were asked to complete the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman, 2001) and the Emotion subscale was used to measure emotional symptoms.”