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 CBCL-TRF-YSR differences in our sample. The mean value of CBCL sc...

The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) for school-age children includes three instruments for assessing emotional and/or behavioral problems: Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), completed by parents, Youth Self-Report (YSR), completed by adolescents and Teacher's Report Form (TRF), completed by teachers. This review article gives detailed information on the development of the...

The aim of the study was to provide a standardization of self-reported competences and emotional/behavioural problems in Spanish adolescents, using the Achenbach's Youth Self-Report (YSR), and to compare our results to those from other countries. The YSR was completed by 2822 adolescents aged 11-18 years, recruited from secondary schools in two regions of Spain. There were significant differenc...

OBJECTIVE With the use of a new cohort of adolescent subjects, predictors from the Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism (SSAGA) interview and the Achenbach Youth Self Report (YSR) were combined to model age of first drink (AFD). METHODS Subjects consisted of 820 adolescents (ages 14-17) drawn from the current phase of the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism....

Obsessive-compulsive behavior was studied in a cohort of N=570 subjects who had been assessed at three times between adolescence and young adulthood. Based on the Youth Self-Report (YSR) and the Young Adult Self-Report (YASR), the adolescent obsessive-compulsive scale (AOCS) was defined. At each of the three assessments, subjects scoring above the cut-off score of the 90th percentile of the AOC...

Our objective was to examine the overlap between autistic traits and other behavioral problems in a general population sample, and explore the extent to which this overlap is due to genetic or environmental factors. Youth Self Report (YSR) data were collected in a general population sample of 424 twin pairs at 18 years of age, and their nontwin siblings. In 197 of these twin families, self-repo...

BACKGROUND Some studies have shown that Sasang typology is related to specific problem behaviors, but research on the associations between Sasang types and problem behaviors in children is scarce. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between Sasang types and problem behaviors in Korean high school students. METHODS A total of 686 Korean high school students (371 boys and ...

Although adolescence is by many scholars viewed as a problematic developmental period, recent research efforts focus increasingly on the antecedents and consequences of what makes adolescents thrive (Smetana, Campione-Barr, & Metzger, 2006). Clearly, adolescence is a time of exploration and opportunity for many youth and adolescent researchers have recognized the importance of studying the mech...

the purpose of this study was to develop an emotional intelligence training program and to evaluate its effectiveness on decreasing behavior problems of adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems that living in single-parent families. this program was offered through workshop which consisted of 10 sessions, two hours per session. the study utilized a quasi-experimental research method w...

The construct “parental psychological control” has been used to refer those parental behaviors that interfere with the children’s thoughts and feelings. Examples of this type would be inducing guilt or shame as well withdrawal affection. objective study was validate adapt Spanish version Psychological Control Scale-Youth Self-Report (PCS-YSR) Control-Disrespect Scale (PCDS) analyze if control i...