There are numerous studies examining differences in the experience of disorders and symptoms of psychopathology in adolescents across racial or ethnic groups and sex. Though there is substantial research exploring potential factors that may influence these differences, few studies have considered the potential contribution of measurement properties to these differences. Therefore, this study examined whether there are differences across racial or ethnic groups and sex in the measurement of psychopathology, assessed in mother-reported behavior of 9-11 year old youth from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study sample using updated Child Behavior Checklist scales (CBCL; Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001). Tests of measurement invariance of the CBCL utilized the higher order factor structure identified by Michelini et al. (2019) using this same Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort. The dimensions include internalizing, somatoform, detachment, externalizing, and neurodevelopmental problems. The configural model had a good-to-excellent fit on all subscales of the CBCL across racial or ethnic groups and sex. The metric and scalar models fit just as well as the configural models, indicating that the scales are measuring the same constructs across racial or ethnic groups and sex and are not influenced by measurement properties of items on the CBCL, although some high-severity response options were not endorsed for youth in all racial or ethnic groups. These findings support the use of the CBCL in research examining psychopathology in racially or ethnically diverse samples of youth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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在青少年大脑和认知发展 (ABCD) 研究中，儿童行为检查表 (CBCL) 跨种族/民族和性别的测量不变性。


有大量研究探讨了不同种族、族裔群体和性别的青少年在精神疾病和精神病理学症状方面的经历差异。尽管有大量研究探索可能影响这些差异的潜在因素，但很少有研究考虑测量特性对这些差异的潜在贡献。因此，本研究考察了不同种族或族裔群体以及性别在精神病理学测量方面是否存在差异，并使用更新的儿童行为检查表量表对来自青少年大脑认知发展研究样本的 9-11 岁青少年的母亲报告行为进行了评估（ CBCL；阿亨巴赫和雷斯科拉，2001）。 CBCL 测量不变性的测试利用了 Michelini 等人确定的高阶因子结构。 （2019）使用相同的青少年大脑认知发展队列。这些维度包括内化、躯体形式、分离、外化和神经发育问题。配置模型对 CBCL 的所有子量表（跨种族或族裔群体和性别）都有很好的拟合效果。度量模型和标量模型与配置模型一样拟合，表明量表测量的是跨种族或族裔群体和性别的相同结构，并且不受 CBCL 项目测量属性的影响，尽管有一些高严重性响应选项并非所有种族或族裔群体的年轻人都认可。这些发现支持使用 CBCL 来研究不同种族或民族的青少年样本的精神病理学。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。