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Alex Morey; Victoria Samuel; Matthew Lewis; Marc Williams – JCPP Advances, 2025
Background: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a transdiagnostic approach which aims to increase psychological flexibility. Higher psychological flexibility has been associated with reduced psychological distress, mental health symptoms and improvements in well-being and functioning. Reviews of ACT for children and young people (CYP)…
Descriptors: Therapy, Measures (Individuals), Factor Structure, Test Validity
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Hina Sheel; Lidia Suárez; Nigel V. Marsh – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2025
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief instrument developed primarily for screening children and adolescents for social-emotional learning. The SDQ contains four factors related to socio-emotional difficulties and one factor related to prosocial behaviour. However, studies of its factor structure have produced mixed results.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Behavior, Questionnaires, Behavior Problems
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Ya Zhang; Juan Fan; Xiao Yang; YiFang Lu; Qi Zhang; ShiJia Li; Chris Evans – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2025
In China there is an increasing need for suitable measures to evaluate clinical outcomes in adolescents' psychological counselling processes. To satisfy this purpose, this study evaluated the Young Person's Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (YP-CORE)'s psychometric properties in a Chinese context with two groups: psychiatric outpatients…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Treatment, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling
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Chloe Turcan; Henry Delamain; Asher Loke; Richard Pender; Will Mandy; Rob Saunders – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Mental health conditions are more prevalent in autistic people than non-autistic people. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire is a commonly used screening tool for emotional and behavioural difficulties in autistic children and adolescents. However, few studies have assessed the psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adolescents, Preadolescents
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Marcella Caputi; Erika Bazzoli; Barbara Forresi; Silvia Grazioli; Ronald M. Rapee; Simona Scaini – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
This study assessed the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Preschool Anxiety Scale--Revised (PAS-R), a parent-reported measure of their preschool child's anxiety symptoms. The participants were mothers of 279 Italian preschoolers (age 2-7 years, M = 4.5 years). According to information criteria derived from a confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Anxiety, Measures (Individuals)
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Angela F. Y. Siu; Chrysa P. C. Keung; Alastair H. K. To – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
This study analyzed the psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the teacher-reported Devereux Early Childhood Assessment, Second Edition (DECA-P2) using a sample of 246 children aged between 2 and 6 years old. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to examine its construct validity. Reliability was evaluated based on the internal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Behavior Rating Scales, Preschool Children
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Olney Rodrigues de Oliveira; Dorottya Ori; Eniko Kiss – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2024
Sense of coherence (SOC) is a relevant contributor and predictor of the individuals' mental and physical health. There are a number of studies about SOC, but only two validation articles of the sense of coherence scale (SOCS) were found on adolescents and none on children. The aim of this research was to validate the SOC scale in youth under 18.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Likert Scales, Questionnaires, Behavior Problems