eprintid: 54563 rev_number: 21 eprint_status: archive userid: 10060 dir: disk0/00/05/45/63 datestamp: 2008-07-30 lastmod: 2022-01-08 01:11:11 status_changed: 2010-03-27 00:29:02 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 ispublished: pub full_text_status: none date: 2002-06 publication: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice refereed: TRUE issn: 1476-0835 divisions: 3272e40d-399c-497d-a023-6a76ab4ad64f volume: 75 number: 2 issns_issn: 1476-0835 issns_type: print creators_name: Al-Awad, A.M.E-H. creators_name: Sonuga-Barke, E.J.S. creators_id: 03ae464b-4850-4491-b6ac-610322ab620a creators_id: bc80bf95-6cf9-4c76-a09d-eaaf0b717635 creators_hidden: FALSE creators_hidden: FALSE contributors_type: http://www.loc.gov/loc.terms/relators/AUT contributors_type: http://www.loc.gov/loc.terms/relators/AUT contributors_name: Al-Awad, A.M.E-H. contributors_name: Sonuga-Barke, E.J.S. contributors_id: 03ae464b-4850-4491-b6ac-610322ab620a contributors_id: bc80bf95-6cf9-4c76-a09d-eaaf0b717635 contributors_hidden: FALSE contributors_hidden: FALSE title: The application of the Conners' Rating Scales to a Sudanese sample: an analysis of parents' and teachers' ratings of childhood behaviour problems subjects: BF abstract: The aim of the current study was to assess the equivalence of Sudanese and North American versions of the Conners' Rating Scales. The reliability, internal consistency, factor score intercorrelation, levels of sex differences and prevalence of symptoms found with Sudanese Arabic adaptations of the parent and teacher scales were compared with previously reported data from North American studies. The scales were translated into Sudanese Arabic, backtranslated and piloted among teachers and parents. These scales were administered to parents and teachers from a stratified normative sample of 300 families with children between 6 and 10 years of age. Both versions of the questionnaire displayed high levels of reliability and satisfactory internal consistency. The associations of ratings by Sudanese adults differed from those typically seen in North American samples in a number of ways. There was little evidence of the existence of broadband distinctions between internalizing and externalizing problems, practically no sex differences, only nonspecific associations between parent and teacher ratings and, most strikingly, very low levels of behaviour problems reported. The results provide evidence of the potential utility of the Sudanese versions of the Conners' Rating Scales while raising important questions about cultural differences in the structure and associations of behaviour problems and the appropriateness of applying North American norms to other cultural groups. Future research should look to supplement studies using adaptations of scales developed in Western settings with more open-ended questions about problems of specific significance to Sudanese parents. date_type: published pagerange: 177-187 related_urls_url: http://southampton.library.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpsoc/paptrap/2002/00000075/00000002/art00005#aff_1 referencetext: Child Development 63, p914 Journal of Learning Disabilities (Austin) 14, p267 Child Development 70, p1348 American Journal of Psychiatry 126, p152 Psychological Inquiry 8, p161 Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 10, p33 European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 9, p202 Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 48, p566 Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 30, p785 Journal - American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 36, p55 British Journal of Medical Psychology 72, p525 Criminology (Beverly Hills Then Columbus) 38, p47 European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 3, p16 Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 50, p615 Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 29, p879 Journal - American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 39, p232 Clinical Psychology Review 5, p429 Monographs - Society For Research in Child Development 46, p1 Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 12, p143 Child Development 41, p667 European Journal of Psychological Assessment 11, p194 Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 37, p35 Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 6, p221 Journal of Clinical Psychology 51, p820 Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 21, p293 languages_3char: eng pure_uuid: ce93c3f3-c7e8-4d08-bfa3-96586e913d39 fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article dates_date: 2002-06 dates_date_type: published hoa_compliant: 304 hoa_date_pub: 2008-07-30 citation: Al-Awad, A.M.E-H. and Sonuga-Barke, E.J.S. (2002) The application of the Conners' Rating Scales to a Sudanese sample: an analysis of parents' and teachers' ratings of childhood behaviour problems. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 75 (2), 177-187.