Eighteen month test-retest stability of the youth self report in a sample of Catalonian adolescents

Psychol Rep. 2006 Oct;99(2):635-40. doi: 10.2466/pr0.99.2.635-640.

Abstract

The aim of this study is to assess the test-retest stability of the Spanish version of Youth Self Report after 18 mo. for a sample of 357 Catalonian high school students (158 boys and 199 girls). At Time 2 the girls' scores increased on Delinquent and Aggressive Behavior scales and, therefore on Externalizing scores. At Time 2 the boys' scores increased on Attention Problems and Delinquent Behavior and decreased on Anxious/Depressed, Social Problems, and Internalizing scales. Significant differences in the remaining scales were not observed. The test-retest intraclass correlations for the broad-band scales ranged between .62 (Internalizing) and .68 (Externalizing) and for the narrow-band scales between .37 and .67. The correlations for girls and boys were similar but slightly higher for girls on Anxious/Depressed and Thought Problems.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Aggression / psychology*
  • Anxiety / epidemiology
  • Anxiety / psychology
  • Child
  • Depression / epidemiology
  • Depression / psychology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Internal-External Control*
  • Juvenile Delinquency / psychology*
  • Juvenile Delinquency / statistics & numerical data
  • Learning Disabilities / epidemiology
  • Learning Disabilities / psychology*
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Male
  • Personality Inventory / statistics & numerical data*
  • Psychometrics
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Social Adjustment
  • Somatoform Disorders / epidemiology
  • Somatoform Disorders / psychology*
  • Spain