Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
ArticlesBehavioral and Emotional Problems in Chinese Adolescents: Parent and Teacher Reports
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Participants and Procedures
The present study is part of an epidemiological survey on mental health problems in school children and adolescents between 6 and 16 years of age in Linyi Prefecture of Shandong Province in 1997. A detailed description of the study has been reported elsewhere (Liu et al., 2000c).
Briefly, 12 towns were randomly selected from a list of all the towns in the prefecture. Permission to conduct the survey was granted by the local education committee, which was then asked to select one elementary
Gender and Age Effects on the CBCL and TRF Scale Scores
Mean CBCL and TRF total scale scores were 23.23 (SD = 18.92) and 25.51 (SD = 18.91), respectively. As Table 1 shows, boys obtained significantly higher scores than girls on the CBCL Aggressive Behavior, Externalizing, and Total Problems subscales, and on the TRF Withdrawn, Social Problems, Attention Problems, Aggressive Behavior, Externalizing, and Total Problems subscales, yet male sex accounted for less than 1% of the variance. Girls scored significantly higher than boys on the Anxious/
DISCUSSION
In this study, we investigated the behavioral and emotional problems of Chinese adolescents by using both parent and teacher reports. With the exception of mean TRF total score in girls, both the CBCL and TRF Total Problems scores were comparable to those of American normative samples (Achenbach, 1991a, Achenbach, 1991b). Internalizing problems were scored markedly high by both Chinese parents and teachers compared with American teachers and parents. The pattern of findings for externalizing
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This research was supported by Shandong Medical Research Foundation, People's Republic of China, and by a Japan Science and Technology Agency Fellowship.