Table 10.
Per SDQ Version and Scale, Its Ability to Distinguish Between Community and Clinical (Sub)Samples.
| SDQ scale | SDQ version | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adolescent | Parent | |||||
| Comm., n | Clin., na | AUC (SE) | Comm., n | Clin., n | AUC (SE) | |
| Total | 917 | 3,847 | .80 (.01) | 525 | 3,699 | .87 (.01) |
| Emotional | 917 | 1,325 | .87 (.01) | 525 | 1,215 | .92 (.01) |
| Conduct | 917 | 363 | .85 (.01) | 525 | 346 | .93 (.01) |
| Hyper | 917 | 873 | .85 (.01) | 525 | 856 | .91 (.01) |
| Social | 917 | 667 | .75 (.01) | 525 | 670 | .84 (.01) |
| Prosocial | 917 | 667 | .58 (.01) | 525 | 670 | .75 (.01) |
Note. SDQ = Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; Comm. = community sample; Clin. = clinical (sub)sample; AUC = area under the curve; SE = standard error.
a
Per SDQ scale, the clinical subsamples consisted of adolescent with a DSM-IV diagnosis content-wise matching the SDQ scale: Anxiety/Mood disorder for the SDQ emotional scale, Conduct/Oppositional Deviant Disorder for the SDQ conduct scale, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder for the SDQ hyperactivity scale and autism spectrum disorder for the SDQ social problems and prosocial behavior scales. For the SDQ total scale, the total clinical sample was used.