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Title: | Using the Very Short Form of the Children's Behavior Questionnaire for Spanish-Speaking Populations in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Psychometric Analysis of Dichotomized Variables |
Author: | Escalante, Elsa Suárez Enciso, Sonia Mariel Putnam, Samuel P. Raikes, Helen Fàbregues, Sergi |
Others: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Universidad del Norte University of Nebraska-Lincoln Bowdoin College |
Citation: | Escalante-Barrios, E.L. [Elsa Lucía], Suárez-Enciso, S.M. [Sonia Mariel], Putnam, S.P. [Samuel P.], Raikes, H. [Helen] i Fàbregues, S. [Sergi](2021). Using the Very Short Form of the Children's Behavior Questionnaire for Spanish-Speaking Populations in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Psychometric Analysis of Dichotomized Variables. Children, 8(2), 1-14. doi: 10.3390/children8020074 |
Abstract: | While the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Very Short Form of the Children's Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ-VSF) have been assessed in the US and Europe in samples composed of middle- and high-income parents with high levels of education, no studies have tested the instrument in low-income Spanish-speaking populations living in low- and middle-income countries. To fill this gap, our cross-sectional study assessed the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the CBQ-VSF version in a sample of 315 low-income and low-educated parents with preschool children living in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. While our findings revealed problems that were similar to those identified in previous assessments of the CBQ-VSF Spanish version, they also showed unique problems related to the sociodemographic characteristics of our sample, containing many individuals with a low income and low educational level. Most of the participants gave extreme responses, resulting in a notable kurtosis and skewness of the data. This article describes how we addressed these problems by dichotomizing the variables into binary categories. Additionally, it demonstrates that merely translating the CBQ-VSF is insufficient to be able to capture many of the underlying latent constructs associated with low-income and low-educated Latino/Hispanic populations. |
Keywords: | children's behavior questionnaire temperament assessment preschoolers low- and middle-income countries confirmatory factor analysis |
DOI: | 10.3390/children8020074 |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
Issue Date: | 22-Jan-2021 |
Publication license: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ |
Appears in Collections: | Articles cientÍfics |
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