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The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) is one of the most
extensively used research behavior checklists in child
psychopathology. This instrument is used to assess parents'
perceptions of their child's behaviors and competencies.
The instrument consists of 113 Likert-type items that
assess internalizing and externalizing behaviors across the
following eight domains: Anxious/Depressed, Social
Problems, Thought Problems, Somatic Complaints, Withdrawn,
Attention Problems, Aggressiveness, and Delinquency
(Achenbach, 1991).
The CBCL has been tested extensively for reliability
(Achenbach & Edelbrock, 1983). Internal consistency is
built into the measure, as the syndrome scales were derived
from principal component analyses of the correlations among
items. Cronbach's alpha is .90 for Internalizing Behavior
Problems and .93 for Externalizing Behavior Problems for
girls ages 4 to 11. For boys ages 4 to 11, Cronbach's alpha
is .89 for Internalizing and .93 for Externalizing Behavior
Problems. Cronbach's alpha represents the mean of all
possible sets of half the items comprising a scale.
Test-retest reliability of the CBCL was established at
.89 for Internalizing Behavior Problems and at .93 for43
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Brandt, Marielle Aloyse. An Investigation of the Efficacy of Play Therapy with Young Children, dissertation, May 1999; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2184/m1/50/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .