Advanced search
Start date
Betweenand
Related content
(Reference retrieved automatically from SciELO through information on FAPESP grant and its corresponding number as mentioned in the publication by the authors.)

SDQ (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire): identification of children readers behavioral characteristics

Full text
Author(s):
Luciene Stivanin [1] ; Claudia Ines Scheuer [2] ; Francisco Baptista Assumpção Jr [3]
Total Authors: 3
Affiliation:
[1] Universidade de São Paulo - Brasil
[2] Universidade de São Paulo
[3] Universidade de São Paulo
Total Affiliations: 3
Document type: Journal article
Source: Psicologia : Teoria e Pesquisa; v. 24, n. 4, p. 407-413, 2008-12-00.
Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Speech Therapy
Abstract

The purpose of this study was to verify behavioral characteristics of children with typical reading development by means of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). This brief questionnaire is a useful measure in psychopathology applied to children and young people from 4 to 16 years. The SDQ is divided in five subscales: prosocial behavior problems, hyperactivity, and emotional, conduct and relationship problems. The participants were parents and teachers of 74 children, attending 2nd,, 3rd, or 4th grades in a public school in the city of São Paulo. The children had no general development and language disorders, and scholars problems. Parents and teachers answered the questionnaires. The answers to the SDQ differed between parents and teachers, and regarding to children's gender and grade. These differences may reflect communication and behavioral changes resulting from experienced situations in children's present developmental stage. (AU)