Sandberg D E, Meyer-Bahlburg H F, Yager T J
Department of Psychiatry, North Shore University Hospital-Cornell University Medical College, Buffalo, NY.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1991 Jan;30(1):124-34. doi: 10.1097/00004583-199101000-00019.
The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) is an extensively standardized parent-completed checklist of competencies and behavior problems of children and adolescents. Clinicians and researchers frequently assume that the published scale scores for the CBCL nonclinical sample are stable even across demographically heterogeneous populations. The present study, a school-based postal questionnaire survey, was designed to compare the CBCL nonclinical sample with a different community sample collected in the U.S. The parents of 530 children, 6 to 10 years of age (73% of the eligible sample), attending one public school system in northern New Jersey were recruited. Mean total behavior problem scores for both sexes in the school sample were dramatically higher than the CBCL nonclinical sample even after removing clinically referred cases from the analyses. Additionally, in contrast to the manual, marked race/ethnicity effects were found in the male subsample. These results, in conjunction with those from other studies, raise serious questions about the common practice of using the CBCL norms as a yardstick for sample comparisons.
儿童行为检查表（CBCL）是一份经过广泛标准化的、由家长填写的关于儿童和青少年能力及行为问题的检查表。临床医生和研究人员常常认为，即使在人口统计学特征各异的人群中，已发表的CBCL非临床样本的量表分数也是稳定的。本研究是一项基于学校的邮政问卷调查，旨在将CBCL非临床样本与在美国收集的另一个社区样本进行比较。我们招募了新泽西州北部一个公立学校系统中530名6至10岁儿童（占符合条件样本的73%）的家长。即使在分析中剔除了临床转诊病例后，学校样本中男女两性的总行为问题平均得分仍显著高于CBCL非临床样本。此外，与手册内容相反，在男性子样本中发现了明显的种族/族裔效应。这些结果，连同其他研究的结果，对将CBCL常模用作样本比较标准的普遍做法提出了严重质疑。
