چکیده (انگلیسی):

The purpose was to advance research and clinical methodology for assessing psy-chopathology by testing the international generalizability of an 8-syndrome model derivedfrom collateral ratings of adult behavioral, emotional, social, and thought problems. Collateralinformants rated 8,582 18-59-year-old residents of 18 societies on the Adult Behavior Checklist(ABCL). Confirmatory factor analyses tested the fit of the 8-syndrome model to ratings from eachsociety. The primary model fit index (Root Mean Square Error of Approximation) showed goodmodel fit for all societies, while secondary indices (Tucker Lewis Index, Comparative Fit Index)showed acceptable to good fit for 17 societies. Factor loadings were robust across societiesanditems. Of the 5,007 estimated parameters, 4 (0.08%) were outside the admissible parameterspace, but 95% confidence intervals included the admissible space, indicating that the 4 deviantparameters could be due to sampling fluctuations. The findings are consistent with previous evi-dence for the generalizability of the 8-syndrome model in self-ratings from 29 societies, andsupport the 8-syndrome model for operationalizing phenotypes of adult psychopathology frommulti-informant ratings in diverse societies.