Youth psychopathology: Universal or culture-specific? Testing the syndrome models of youth self-report in Chinese population.

ABSTRACT:

Problem

The debate on whether psychiatric symptoms are universal and to what extent they are affected by culture is generally divided between the universalist and relativist approaches.

Methods

This study compared Achenbach/Rescorla's model and Weisz's model of youth self-report in 2521 Chinese adolescents (mean age = 12 years). Indigenous exploratory factor analyses were conducted to explore the factor structure of youth self-report (YSR), and the derived models were tested with confirmatory factor analysis.

Findings

These analyses indicated good support of the Chinese YSR models for males and females. Further analyses revealed three syndromes, namely anxious/depressed, somatic complaints, and aggressive behaviors, which represented broad internalizing and externaliz

SUBMITTER: Liu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10082997 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature