Discerning the seriousness of socioemotional symptoms in young children can be difficult. To address this issue, the Attention, Behavior, Language, and Emotions (ABLE) universal behavioral health screener uses a rubric for severity that includes indicators of problem duration, impairment, generalizability, exacerbation, persistence, peer comparison, and need for professional intervention. This report examines whether this rubric can be treated as a unidimensional scale across respondents and problem types and streamlined for more efficient screening. Head Start teachers and parents (N = 2,643) reported socioemotional, attentional, behavioral, and language problems. Rasch analyses confirmed that the ABLE severity scale is unidimensional but the coherence of severity indicators differed by respondents. Consequently, greater precision in establishing clinical significance can be achieved by weighting severity items differentially for teachers and parents.

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使用 ABLE 通用筛选器评估对学龄前儿童注意力、行为和情绪自我调节的担忧程度：Rasch 分析

辨别幼儿社会情绪症状的严重性可能很困难。为了解决这个问题，注意力、行为、语言和情绪 (ABLE) 通用行为健康筛查工具使用了一个严重性评分标准，其中包括问题持续时间、损伤、普遍性、恶化、持续性、同龄人比较和专业干预需求的指标。本报告检查是否可以将此量规视为跨受访者和问题类型的单维量表，并对其进行简化以进行更有效的筛选。启蒙教师和家长 (N = 2,643) 报告了社会情绪、注意力、行为和语言问题。Rasch 分析证实 ABLE 严重性量表是一维的，但严重性指标的一致性因受访者而异。最后，