The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) both measure emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents, and scores on the two instruments are highly correlated. When administrative needs compel practitioners to change the instrument used or data from the two measures are combined to perform pooled analyses, it becomes necessary to compare scores on the two instruments. To enable such comparisons, we score linked three domains (Internalizing, Externalizing, and Total Problems) of the CBCL and SDQ in three age groups spanning 2–17 years. After assessing linking assumptions, we compared item response theory (IRT) and equipercentile linking methods to identify the most statistically justifiable link, ultimately selecting equipercentile linking with loglinear smoothing due to its minimal bias and the ability to link raw SDQ scores with both T-scores and raw scores from the CBCL. We derived crosswalk conversion tables to convert scores on one measure to the metric of the other and discuss the use of these tables in research and practice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)

中文翻译：

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将儿童行为检查表与优势和困难调查问卷联系起来。


儿童行为检查表（CBCL）和优势与困难问卷（SDQ）都衡量儿童和青少年的情绪和行为问题，两种工具的得分高度相关。当管理需要迫使从业者改变所使用的工具或将两种测量的数据结合起来进行汇总分析时，有必要比较两种工具的分数。为了进行这样的比较，我们对 2-17 岁三个年龄组的 CBCL 和 SDQ 的三个相关领域（内化、外化和总体问题）进行评分。评估链接假设后，我们比较了项目反应理论 (IRT) 和等分位数链接方法，以确定统计上最合理的链接，最终选择对数线性平滑的等分位数链接，因为它的偏差最小，并且能够将原始 SDQ 分数与两个 T 分数链接起来以及 CBCL 的原始分数。我们导出了人行横道转换表，将一项措施的分数转换为另一项措施的指标，并讨论了这些表格在研究和实践中的使用。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）