A Escala Comportamental Infantil de Rutter A2: estudos de adaptação e fidedignidade.
Keywords:
The Ruller Child Behavior Scale A2, behavior assessment, Brazilian adaptationAbstract
With the aim of making an adaplation of the Ruller Child Behavior Scale A2 as well as a testing of the reliability of the adapted version, this scale was translated into Portuguese and applied to parents with children aged 3 to 13. In a first step, the Scale A2 was translaled and applied to 60 parents. As a result, it went through modifications in the language, regarding some of the items, as well as an addition of others. In a second step, in order to evaluate the reliability between father and mother, the adapted scale A2 was filled out separalely by the fathers and mothers of 56 children; to evaluate the test-retest reliabllity, the parents of 96 children replied to the scale questions once and then replied to them again 3 to 4 weeks later. The comparalive analysls of the responses was performed using the Kappa statistical parameter. The results indicated an acceplable test-retest and father-mother reliability for most of the items.
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