TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotional and behavioural difficulties in children referred for learning disabilities from two Arab countries
T2 - A cross-cultural examination of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
AU - El-Keshky, Mogeda
AU - Emam, Mahmoud
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, under grant No. ( 125-004-D1434 ). The authors, therefore, acknowledge with thanks DSR technical and financial support.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a widely used child mental health questionnaire with five hypothesized subscales. There is theoretical and preliminary empirical support for combining the SDQ's hypothesized emotional and peer subscales into an 'internalizing' subscale and the hypothesized behavioural and hyperactivity subscales into an 'externalizing' subscale (alongside the fifth prosocial subscale). We examined both structures using the teacher informant version data from two Arab countries, namely Saudi Arabia (323) and Oman (439). Multigroup CFAs based on structural equation modelling revealed culture invariance for the SDQ. The three-factor model showed a better description of the SDQ structure. The analysis also revealed gender invariance for the SDQ three and five factor models in both the Omani and Saudi samples. There were gender differences in all the three and five factors between the Saudi and Omani samples.
AB - The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a widely used child mental health questionnaire with five hypothesized subscales. There is theoretical and preliminary empirical support for combining the SDQ's hypothesized emotional and peer subscales into an 'internalizing' subscale and the hypothesized behavioural and hyperactivity subscales into an 'externalizing' subscale (alongside the fifth prosocial subscale). We examined both structures using the teacher informant version data from two Arab countries, namely Saudi Arabia (323) and Oman (439). Multigroup CFAs based on structural equation modelling revealed culture invariance for the SDQ. The three-factor model showed a better description of the SDQ structure. The analysis also revealed gender invariance for the SDQ three and five factor models in both the Omani and Saudi samples. There were gender differences in all the three and five factors between the Saudi and Omani samples.
KW - A cross-cultural examination
KW - Emotional and behavioural difficulties
KW - Factorial structure
KW - Learning disabilities
KW - The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.10.039
DO - 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.10.039
M3 - Article
C2 - 25462506
AN - SCOPUS:84912038898
SN - 0891-4222
VL - 36
SP - 459
EP - 469
JO - Research in Developmental Disabilities
JF - Research in Developmental Disabilities
ER -