Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire – 4-16 years (parental form) - preliminary Results for a Bulgarian Sample of Pupils on the parental data Cover Image

Въпросникът „Силни страни и трудности“– 4-16 години (родителска форма) – предварителни резултати от българска извадка ученици
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire – 4-16 years (parental form) - preliminary Results for a Bulgarian Sample of Pupils on the parental data

Author(s): Evelina Bogdanova, Maria Atanassova-Trifonova, Jordanka Lalova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology
Published by: Институт за изследване на населението и човека - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: emotional and behavioral problems; children and pre-adolescents; factorial strucrure of SDQ; internal consistency.

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the results of an experimental study of students I – Vth grade (N = 153), in which, among other methods, it was applied the „Strengths and difficulties“ questionnaire parental form. Based on the review of existing studies applied this questionnaire in other countries, a comparative analysis has been accomplished and the results obtained are analyzed in correspondence with some of them. An exploratory analysis confirmed the 5-factor structure of the questionnaire, similar to the original English version. The obtained values of the internal reliability coefficients for the individual scales as well as for the overall difficulty scale (Cronbach’s a = .705) are satisfactory. The average values of the questionnaire are close to those of the English sample, with a tendency towards slightly higher average values both on the total score and on the scores of most scales. The thresholds of the values of the total assessment for both the whole sample and for the individual age groups are also presented. Despite the small sample, the obtained data can be used to further validate the parent form of the questionnaire and confirm its use as a good skinning tool in our country.

  • Issue Year: 23/2020
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 68-83
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bulgarian