The study explores the relationship between the performance in two cognitive tests and the emotional and behavioral problems revealed by cbcl/4-18 in a non clinical sample. We administered cpm/spm and three sub-tests of tomal (forward digit span, backward digit span, and visual-sequential memory) to 320 children from 6 to 13 years. Their parents completed cbcl/4-18. This study demonstrates a meaningful relationship between cognitive abilities and some syndromic scales and confirms the utility of cbcl as a screening instrument. Parents ability to register signs of difficulties in their children is an invaluable resource for prevention. However, cbcl provides only indirect information about the child’s intellectual resources. Hence, cbcl could be integrated by some cognitive tests, taking into consideration the way in which they would be administered. The collective instruments, which are typically preferred in large scale screenings, could be misleading because they were unable to reveal adequately neither the difficulties of the internalizing children, nor the positive potential of the externalizing children.
Psychological and school problems in children and adolescents: A multimethod study / Cannoni, Eleonora; DI NORCIA, Anna. - In: RASSEGNA DI PSICOLOGIA. - ISSN 1125-5196. - STAMPA. - XXIX(3):(2012), pp. 95-102. [10.7379/72663]
Psychological and school problems in children and adolescents: A multimethod study.
CANNONI, Eleonora;DI NORCIA, Anna
2012
Abstract
The study explores the relationship between the performance in two cognitive tests and the emotional and behavioral problems revealed by cbcl/4-18 in a non clinical sample. We administered cpm/spm and three sub-tests of tomal (forward digit span, backward digit span, and visual-sequential memory) to 320 children from 6 to 13 years. Their parents completed cbcl/4-18. This study demonstrates a meaningful relationship between cognitive abilities and some syndromic scales and confirms the utility of cbcl as a screening instrument. Parents ability to register signs of difficulties in their children is an invaluable resource for prevention. However, cbcl provides only indirect information about the child’s intellectual resources. Hence, cbcl could be integrated by some cognitive tests, taking into consideration the way in which they would be administered. The collective instruments, which are typically preferred in large scale screenings, could be misleading because they were unable to reveal adequately neither the difficulties of the internalizing children, nor the positive potential of the externalizing children.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.