The SDQ subscales obtained from the online administration showed high internal consistency (polychoric
ordinal alpha), and confirmatory factor analysis of the SDQ five factor model resulted in excellent fit.
Due to some skewness and / or kurtosis on some items on the SDQ and the DBD, polychoric
ordinal alpha (Gadermann et al. 2012) was calculated instead of Cronbach's alpha when more appropriate.
The internal consistency (polychoric
ordinal alpha) of the subscales of the DBD ranged between 0.94 and 0.99.
These studies have not used polychoric
ordinal alpha, but instead Cronbach's alpha, which might explain some of the differences.
The internal consistency of the SDQ (polychoric
ordinal alpha) ranged between 0.84 and 0.91 (emotional problems: 0.89, hyperactivity — inattention: 0.88, peer problems: 0.84, prosocial behaviour: 0.91, and conduct problems: 0.88).
Given the large skewness and kurtosis of three of its items, polychoric
ordinal alpha was used to investigate the internal consistency.
The internal consistency (polychoric
ordinal alpha: Please see Statistical analysis) of the subscales of the DBD varied between.97 and.99.
Factor loadings (where applicable), internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha,
ordinal alpha), as well as the scale and item means and standard deviations are presented in Table 2.
Cronbach's alphas for the MDI scales ranged from.65 to.87, and
ordinal alphas from.70 to.91.