Assessment of Behavioral and Emotional Strengths in Black Children: Development of the Behavioral Assessment for Children of African Heritage

Autor/inn/en	Lambert, Michael Canute; Rowan, George T.; Kim, Soyoun; Rowan, Scott A.; An Shin, Jeong; Kirsch, Elizabeth A.; Williams, Olivia
Titel	Assessment of Behavioral and Emotional Strengths in Black Children: Development of the Behavioral Assessment for Children of African Heritage
Quelle	In: Journal of Black Psychology, 31 (2005) 4, S.321-351 (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-7984
DOI	10.1177/0095798405278409
Schlagwörter	Psychometrics; African American Children; African American Community; Emotional Response; Prosocial Behavior; Item Response Theory; Functional Behavioral Assessment; Cultural Influences; Self Control; Factor Analysis; Measurement Techniques; Adolescents; Personality Traits; Culture Fair Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychometry; Psychometrie; African Americans; Child; Children; Afroamerikaner; Kind; Kinder; Emotionales Verhalten; Item-Response-Theorie; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Selbstbeherrschung; Faktorenanalyse; Messtechnik; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal
Abstract	Absence of culturally relevant measures of Black children's strengths inhibits psychometrically sound strength-based assessment, research, and appropriate use of strengths as scaffolds or targets for clinical intervention. Moreover, the sparse research literature on Black children is primarily deficit focused. Beginning to address these problems, considerable input was sought from the Black community in constructing behavioral and emotional strength forms for Black children. Exploratory factor analyses conducted separately on 559 parent reports, 489 teacher reports, and 417 adolescent self-reports revealed two unidimensional cross-informant factors labeled Resilience and Self-Regulation and Prosocial Behavior. Item response theory analyses revealed invariance across gender, socioeconomic status, and age, but variance across informant type and referral status, and that most items provide sufficient psychometric information to warrant retention for clinical assessment and research. (Contains 5 tables and 2 figures.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10