The Child Behavior Checklist, Teacher Report Form and Youth Self Report Problem Scales in a Normative Sample of Croatian Children and Adolescents Aged 7–18
The main goal of this study was to standardize the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Teacher Report Form (TRF) and Youth Self Report (YSR) questionnaire problem scales on a normative random sample of children and adolescents (N=3309) aged 7 to 18 throughout Croatia. The second goal was to compare boys-girls problem scales data and CBCLTRF- YSR differences in our sample. The mean value of CBCL scores for the Total Problems scale for different groups (children/adolescents; boys/girls) ranged from 17.07 to 20.71. Overall instruments’ internal consistency ranged from 0.83 to 0.86. In almost all the scales parents reported higher scores than teachers (p<0.01). In all the scales adolescents reported significantly higher scores than their parents and teachers (p<0.01). This study standardized the questionnaires for our specific socio-cultural circle, which satisfy complex psychopathology study criteria. Problem scales results in our sample suggest similarity to previous European researches
