Psychometric study of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) for children from 2 to 4 years of age in Uruguay

Mauricio Castillo; Victor Ortuño

doi:10.46553/RPSI.19.37.2023.p7-22

Authors

Mauricio Castillo Centro de Investigación básica en psicología (CIBPsi) - Universidad de la República Montevideo - Uruguay http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2126-3697
Victor Ortuño Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de la República Montevideo, Uruguay 3 Centro de Investigação em Neuropsicologia e Intervenção Cognitivo-Comportamental, Universidade de Coimbra http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9523-0874

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46553/RPSI.19.37.2023.p7-22

Keywords:

Early childhood, Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire, factor analysis, structural equation modeling

Abstract

The Skills and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is widely used for the assessment of socio-emotional behaviors in children from 4 to 16 years of age. Different structural models have been validated, varying between the number of dimensions, grouping of variables and first and second order factors. The following study seeks to evaluate the psychometric properties of the SDQ through an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, in a sample of 330 children between the ages of 2 and 4 who attend care centers in Uruguay. The results show that the original model is the one with the best internal consistency but poor structural fit. The bifactorial model was the one that obtained the best adjustment

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