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The present study was carried out to translate and validate the Child and Adolescent Disruptive Behaviour Inventory (CADBI) V. 5.0 developed by Burns (2010) from English into Urdu language. The inventory had two forms CADBI - Parent (41 items) and CADBI - Teacher (42 items), each comprised of five subscales including Oppositional Defiant Disorder toward Adults, Oppositional Defiant Disorder toward Peers/Siblings, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Hyperactivity/Impulsivity, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder-Inattention, and Academic and Social Competence. The study was completed in two phases, in the first phase researcher translated the scale by following the standard procedure of back translation. In the 2nd phase, reliability and validity was determined. The internal consistency reliability of the Urdu version found to be satisfactory ranging from .86 to .92 for the subscales. Further, the cross-language validation of Urdu version with English original version also came out to be a highly significant correlation among subscales. The study has implication in the field of child and developmental psychology.
Keyword. Disruptive behavior, oppositional defiant behavior, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, disruptive behaviour
The objective of the study was to translate and validate a scale for the assessment of disruptive behaviour in children and adolescent. The focalaim of translating The Child and Adolescent Disruptive Behaviour Inventory (CADBI; Burns, 2010) was to have an easily comprehendible tool in Urdu language equivalent (content) to the original English version that could aid in collecting data about children's behaviour. The present scale is unique in different aspects; most importantly it is equally useful for clinical and nonclinical population.
The CADBI comprised of five subscales, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) toward Adults (ODD-Adult) having 8 items; ODD toward Peers/Siblings (ODD-Peer) having 8 items; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Hyperactivity/Impulsivity (ADHD-H/I) having 9 items; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Inattention (ADHD-IN) having 9 items; Academic competence (AC) having 4 items on Parent version and 5 on Teacher version; and Social Competence (SC)subscale having 4 items on Parent version and 2 items on Teacher version. The two separate versions, Parent and Teacher(CADBI - Parent and CADBI - teacher), provide distinctive prospect by asking the rater (parent or teacher) to rate the occurrence of child's problem behavior which child shows during his/her interaction with people in the specific context of home or...