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Behavioral and Emotional Problems Among Adolescents of Jamaica and the United States

Parent, Teacher, and Self-Reports for Ages 12 to 18

Michael Canute Lambert, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and an adjunct professor at the David Walker Research Institute, College of Human Medicine, at Michigan State University. His research interests include taxonomy and measurement of psychopathology in children and families of the African Diaspora, cross-national research on child and adolescent psychopathology, and adult attitudes and behavior regarding child behavior and emotional problems. Address: Michael C. Lambert, Department of Psychology, Psychology Research Bldg., Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824–1117.

Mikhail Lyubansky, MA

Mikhail Lyubansky, MA, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a clinical doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. His research interests include cross-national differences in child and adolescent behaviors and the process of acculturation in immigrant children and families

Thomas M. Achenbach, PhD

Thomas M. Achenbach, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry and psychology and director of the Center for Children, Youth, and Families at the University of Vermont Department of Psychiatry. He has been a DAAD Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, an SSRC Senior Faculty Fellow at Jean Piaget's Centre d'Epistemologie Genetique in Geneva. Chair of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Classification of Children's Behavior, and a member of the American Psychiatric Association's Advisory Committee on DSM-III-R.

Nonreferred adolescent samples for ages 12 to 18 from Jamaica and the United States were compared via syndromes, syndrome groupings, and total problem scores on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Teacher's Report Form, and Youth Self-Report. No significant total problem score differences were found between Jamaican and U.S. adolescents in reports by any informants. However, adolescents in both societies reported significantly more problems than their parents or teachers. Jamaican adolescents received and endorsed higher problem ratings for the Withdrawn and Somatic Complaints syndromes and on internalizing scores. These findings suggest that by virtue of the time spent in their society, Jamaican adolescents may develop problems their country facilitates. The results further indicate the need to test whether similar CBCL-based syndromes and syndrome groupings are evident in the Jamaican youth population. If such groupings are identified for Jamaican adolescents, different clinical cutpoints on some scores may be needed for Jamaican than for U.S. adolescents.

Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 6, No. 3, 180-187 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/106342669800600306


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