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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 2.
Published in final edited form as: Open Fam Stud J. 2011;4(Suppl 1-M2):17–26. doi: 10.2174/1874922401104010017

Table 2.

Convergent, Discriminant and Predictive Validities of the ALEXSA Conduct Disorder and Depression Subscales in High-Risk African-Americans at Age 9

ALEXSAA Dominic-R
Conduct Disorder Depression Externalizing Internalizing
Dominic-R Externalizing .44** .39** - .67**
Internalizing .19** .49** .67** -
CBCL (Parent Ratings) Externalizing .09 .14* .13 .08
Externalizing (age 10) .16* .12 .18* .11
Internalizing .01 .14* .07 .08
Internalizing (age 10) .04 .13 .13 .14
Conners Examiner Ratings Conduct Problems .18** .20** .16* .13*
Conduct Problems (age 10) .25** .12 .19** .08
Hyperactivity Index .32** .21** .24** .19**
Hyperactivity Index (age 10) .23** .12 .18** .05
Inattention-Passive .30** .19** .14* .17**
Inattention-Passive (age 10) .18** .10 .14* .02
Conners Teacher Ratings Conduct Problems .12 .09 .16* .15
Hyperactivity Index .28** .13 .25** .15
Inattention-Passive .36** .16* .23** .16*

Note: N=337.

**

p<.001.

*

p<.01.

Dominic-R scores are from the Problem subscale scores. CBCL= Child Behavior Checklist, completed by participant mothers.

A

Conduct Disorder Criteria and Depression subscales correlated .21**. For comparison, r=.02 between CBCL Externalizing and examiner Conduct Problems, .36 between CBCL Externalizing and teacher Conduct Problems and .14 between examiner and teacher Conduct Problems.