SDQ: discriminative validity and diagnostic potential

SDQ: discriminative validity and diagnostic potential

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) was designed to screen for behavioral problems in youths based on cutoff points that favor the instrument's diagnostic sensitivity. The present study aimed to analyze the discriminative validity of the SDQ to identify behavioral difficulties and prosocial resources in school-age children compared with the diagnostic data collected by the corres...

Discriminative Validity

Donald Campbell has made many contributions of broad methodological, epistemological, and practical importance to psychology as a science. Within his discussions of methodological issues, validity was a prominent theme. This chapter discusses the more specific notion of discriminative validity. Among hindrances to the progress of scientific psychology, inventing new names for old concepts is on...

Assessing the Validity of Diagnostic Tests

Criterion validity of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) with inpatient adolescents.

Increasing rates of adolescent admissions to inpatient psychiatric settings and acute length of stay necessitates valid psychiatric screening tools. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) appears to have valuable clinical application due to its brevity and strong psychometric properties. In this study we aimed to evaluate the criterion validity of the SDQ in 159 psychiatric inpatien...

The validity and reliability of the German version of the Somatoform Dissociation Questionnaire (SDQ-20).

The present study investigated the validity of the German version of the Somatoform Dissociation Questionnaire (SDQ-20), a scale designed to measure somatoform dissociative symptoms. Somatoform dissociation involves physical manifestations of a dissociation of the personality and is considered a unique entity in the phenomenological spectrum of dissociation. The validity and reliability of the ...