Abstract

BITENCOURT FRIZZO, Giana et al. Reliability of Child Behavior Checklist and Teacher's Report Form in a Sample of Brazilian Children. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2015, vol.14, n.1, pp.149-156. ISSN 1657-9267.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.upsy14-1.rcbc.

Instruments comprising the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment are widely used worldwide to assess behavior problems in children and adolescents. The aim of the present study was to assess the temporal stability of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Teacher's Report Form (TRF), administered to parents and teachers of school-aged children, respectively. Temporal stability was assessed based on intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). High test-retest reliability was observed for both CBCL and TRF (0.87 - 0.91 and 0.62 - 0.8 for total behavior scale, respectively). These findings suggest that both instruments remained stable over the one-year period assessment, revealing the stability of the instrument and corroborating the findings of previous international studies.

Keywords : Child Behavior Checklist; Teacher's Report Form; child behavior problems.

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