[en] The assessment of externalizing behavior (EB) in preschoolers is crucial in developmental psychopathology. In the absence of any gold standard measure, new tools contribute to a multi-method and multi-informant approach. The aim of the current study is to present and validate a new observational paradigm, the Unfair Card Game (UCG), intentionally structured to increase the likelihood that negative affect, agitation
and inattention will emerge during a video-recorded task. It was administered to 268
young children, and the results were validated by means of factorial analysis, reliability
analyses, inter-rater agreement, discriminant analyses and external validation with two
questionnaires, the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2004) and the
Conners Questionnaire (Conners, 1999), and with another observational paradigm, the
Mother-Child Interaction Task (Crowell, Feldman, & Ginsberg, 1988). The validity of the
UCG is supported by the findings.
Disciplines :
Treatment & clinical psychology
Author, co-author :
Roskam, Isabelle; Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL > Psychological Sciences Research Institute
Stievenart, Marie ; Université de Liège > Département de Psychologie > Psychopathologie de l'enfance
Brassart, Elise
Houssa, Marine; Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL > Psychological Sciences Research Institute
Loop, Laurie; Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL > Psychological Sciences Research Institute
Mouton, Bénédicte; Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL > Psychological Sciences Research Institute
Volckaert, Alexandra; Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL > Psychological Sciences Research Institute
Nader Grobois, Nathalie; Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL > Psychological Sciences Research Institute
Noël, Marie-Pascale; Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL > Psychological Sciences Research Institute
Schelstraete, Marie-Anne; Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL > Psychological Sciences Research Institute
Language :
English
Title :
The Unfair Card Game: A promising tool to assess externalizing behavior in preschoolers
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