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- Title
The Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment: screening for social-emotional problems and delays in competence.
- Authors
Briggs-Gowan, Margaret J.; Carter, Alice S.; Irwin, Julia R.; Wachtel, Karen; Cicchetti, Domenic V.
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>To examine the reliability and validity of the 42-item Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA), a screener for social-emotional/behavioral problems and delays in competence.<bold>Method: </bold>Parents in a representative healthy birth cohort of 1,237 infants aged 12 to 36 months completed the Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (ITSEA)/BITSEA, the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)/1.5-5, the MacArthur Communication Developmental Inventory vocabulary checklist, and worry questions. In a subsample, independent evaluators rated infant-toddler behavior.<bold>Results: </bold>Test-retest reliability was excellent and interrater agreement (mother/father and parent/child-care provider) was good. Supporting validity, BITSEA problems correlated with concurrent evaluator problem ratings and CBCL/1.5-5 scores and also predicted CBCL/1.5-5 and ITSEA problem scores one year later. BITSEA measures of competence correlated with concurrent observed competence and predicted later ITSEA competence measures. Supporting discriminant validity, only 23% of high BITSEA problem scorers had delayed vocabulary. Moreover, the combined BITSEA problem/competence cutpoints identified 85% of subclinical/clinical CBCL/1.5-5 scores, while maintaining acceptable specificity (75%).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Findings support the BITSEA as a screener for social-emotional/behavioral problems and delays in social-emotional competence.
- Subjects
BEHAVIOR disorders in children; EMOTIONS in infants; EMOTIONS in children; CHILD psychopathology; DIAGNOSIS; CHILD psychology
- Publication
Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2004, Vol 29, Issue 2, p143
- ISSN
0146-8693
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/jpepsy/jsh017