Silver Jamilah, Olino Thomas M, Luby Joan, Hawes Mariah H, Carlson Gabrielle A, Klein Daniel N
Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2021 Mar;49(3):367-379. doi: 10.1007/s10802-020-00746-0. Epub 2021 Jan 6.
The Preschool Feelings Checklist (PFC) is a 16-item parent report measure of depressive symptoms in young children. However, data on its reliability and validity are limited. We examined the internal consistency and convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of the PFC in an unselected community sample of 490 3-year old children. Child psychopathology was assessed using semi-structured diagnostic interviews conducted with a parent at ages 3 and 6 (the Preschool Age Psychiatric Assessment) and with the child and a parent at ages 9, 12, and 15 (the Kiddie Schedule for the Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia, Present and Lifetime Version). The PFC exhibited good internal consistency. It was concurrently associated with depression, as well as a wide range of other psychiatric disorders and functional impairment. Similarly, the PFC at 3 years independently predicted depression and a range of other disorders and global functioning in subsequent assessments later in childhood and in adolescence. Finally, the PFC outperformed the longer Child Behavior Checklist in predicting diagnoses and functioning. Results support the concurrent and predictive validity of the PFC in preschoolers. However, it also exhibited concurrent and predictive associations with a number of other disorders, suggesting that it indexes a broad transdiagnostic liability for psychopathology and impairment.
学前情感检查表（PFC）是一份由家长报告的、用于测量幼儿抑郁症状的包含16个条目的量表。然而，关于其信度和效度的数据有限。我们在一个由490名3岁儿童组成的未经过筛选的社区样本中，检验了PFC的内部一致性以及聚合效度、区分效度和预测效度。儿童精神病理学通过在3岁和6岁时与家长进行的半结构化诊断访谈（学前儿童精神评估）以及在9岁、12岁和15岁时与儿童及其家长进行的访谈（情感障碍和精神分裂症儿童检查表，当前和终生版本）来评估。PFC表现出良好的内部一致性。它与抑郁症以及一系列其他精神障碍和功能损害同时相关。同样，3岁时的PFC能够独立预测在儿童期后期和青少年期后续评估中的抑郁症以及一系列其他障碍和整体功能。最后，在预测诊断和功能方面，PFC的表现优于更长的儿童行为检查表。结果支持了PFC在学龄前儿童中的同时效度和预测效度。然而，它也与许多其他障碍表现出同时性和预测性关联，这表明它为精神病理学和损害索引了一种广泛的跨诊断易感性。
