Dutch Norms for the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory: Comparisons with other Western Countries

Joyce Weeland, Jolien van Aar, Geertjan Overbeek, Joyce Weeland, Jolien van Aar, Geertjan Overbeek

Abstract

The Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI) is one of the most widely used and well-validated parent rating scales for children's disruptive behavior. This screening instrument is a short, targetted and easy to implement inventory with good psychometric properties and is normed for different countries, among which the United States, Spain, Sweden and Norway. The ECBI has been successfully used for research and clinical purposes, in several countries including The Netherlands. To date, Dutch studies have relied on Scandinavian or US norm scores. However, this may be problematic because of cross-cultural differences in the degree to which certain behaviors are seen as problematic by parents. The main goal of this paper therefore was to obtain norm scores for The Netherlands among 6462 Dutch children aged 4 to 8 years (Mage = 6.37 years; SD = 1.32; 50.6% boys). In line with previous research, we found small differences on the mean sum scores across children of different ages (intensity scale) and gender (intensity and problem scale). Therefore, Dutch norm scores were provided age- and gender specific. Our results showed that disruptive behavior of children in the most rural areas was reported as occurring less frequently and was seen as less problematic by parents compared to the disruptive behavior of children in less rural areas. Finally, we found that Dutch norm scores on the ECBI were significantly lower than US norm scores, and significantly higher on the intensity scale (but not the problem scale) than Norwegian and Swedish norm scores.

Keywords: Children; Disruptive behavior; ECBI; Norm scores; Parent-reports.

Conflict of interest statement

Compliance with Ethical StandardsJoyce Weeland, Jolien van Aar, and Geertjan Overbeek declare that they have no conflict of interest.All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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Fig. 1
Intensity scale mean scores per country. Note. US 2001 study is a mean score of the used age groups 2–5 and 6–9 years
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Problem scale mean scores per country. Note. US 2001 study is a mean score of the used age groups 2–5 and 6–9 years

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