The children's Social Behavior Questionnaire for milder variants of PDD problems: evaluation of the psychometric characteristics.
The CSBQ is a brief parent tool that cleanly sorts kids with mild PDD traits from other groups.
01Research in Context
What this study did
Lancioni et al. (2000) built a parent form called the CSBQ. It asks about five mild social-behavior problems seen in kids with PDD.
Parents of children with autism, ADHD, and mixed diagnoses filled it out. The team checked if scores lined up with real diagnoses.
What they found
The CSBQ showed solid psychometrics. It cleanly split the groups. Children with autism scored highest on most scales.
How this fits with other research
Pitchford et al. (2019) later used the same form in siblings. They found the factor pattern held, so you can trust it for broader autism traits.
Hilton et al. (2010) and Auyeung et al. (2008) also built parent forms. Like the CSBQ, their tools split ASD from non-ASD, giving parallel support.
Smit et al. (2019) tried the SCQ in clinics and saw poor accuracy. That negative result makes the CSBQ’s good marks look even stronger.
Why it matters
You now have a free, quick parent scale that flags mild PDD features. Use it during intake to spot kids who need a deeper look. Pair it with direct observation and you will waste less time on false positives.
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02At a glance
03Original abstract
The Children's Social Behavior Questionnaire (CSBQ) contains items referring to behavior problems seen in children with milder variants of PDD. Data of large samples of children diagnosed as having high-functioning autism, PDDNOS, ADHD, and other child-psychiatric disorders were gathered. Besides the CSBQ, parents completed the Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC) and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). The data provided the basis for scale construction of the CSBQ, a comparison of the CSBQ scales with other instruments and a comparison of groups on scores on the CSBQ. The 5 scales obtained referred to Acting-out behaviors, Social Contact problems, Social Insight problems, Anxious/Rigid behaviors and Stereotypical behaviors. Results show that the CSBQ has good psychometric qualities with respect to both reliability and validity. A comparison of the different groups showed that significant group differences were found on all scales. In general, the autism group received the highest scores, followed by the PDDNOS group and the ADHD group. Exceptions were on the Acting-out scale, where the ADHD group scored highest and on the Social Insight scale, where no significant difference was found between the PDDNOS group and the ADHD group. Implications of the results and suggestions for further research are discussed.
Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2000 · doi:10.1023/a:1005527300247