DSM-Oriented and Empirically Based Approaches to Constructing Scales From the Same Item Pools

Department of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College Separately for ages 11/2 to 5 and 6 to 18, used items for rating behavioral and emotional problems to construct (a) "top-down" DSM-oriented scales from experts' ratings of the items' consistency with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of...

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Published in:	Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology 2003-09, Vol.32 (3), p.328-340
Main Authors:	Achenbach, Thomas M., Dumenci, Levent, Rescorla, Leslie A.
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Adolescent Child Child psychology Child, Preschool Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Empirical Research Factor Analysis, Statistical Female Humans Infant Male Mental disorders Mental Disorders - classification Mental Disorders - diagnosis Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - standards Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - statistics & numerical data Psychological tests Psychometrics - standards Psychometrics - statistics & numerical data Reproducibility of Results
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Summary:	Department of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College Separately for ages 11/2 to 5 and 6 to 18, used items for rating behavioral and emotional problems to construct (a) "top-down" DSM-oriented scales from experts' ratings of the items' consistency with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed. [DSM-IV], American Psychiatric Association, 1994) categories, and (b) "bottom-up" empirically based syndromes from factor analyses of parent, caregiver, teacher, and self ratings (N = 14,853). Both kinds of scales are scored from the same assessment instruments and are displayed on profiles normed on the same national samples. Psychometric properties were similar for both kinds of scales. Associations between counterpart scales were medium to strong. Quantified, normed DSM-oriented and empirically based scales scored from the same instruments can facilitate assessment of individuals, statistical analyses for research purposes, and integration of top-down and bottom-up approaches to deriving constructs for psychopathology.
ISSN:	1537-4416 1537-4424