In 2008, the American Veterinary Society
of Animal
Behavior (AVSAB)
published a paper stating that it «should be the
standard of care for puppies to receive [such] socialization before they are fully vaccinated.»
Investigators have used it as the criterion for diagnosis
of behavior disturbance against which to gauge the validity
of both screening instruments27 and psychological interview measures.28 The
published Spanish version
of the CBCL used in this study has been found to have good internal consistency and concurrent validity in Spanish - speaking populations.29 The CBCL was chosen as the
standard of comparison to avoid basing the calculation
of PSC validity on a small subset
of the data as done in previous studies using structured interviews as the
standard24,30 - 32 and because the CBCL has been widely used as the criterion
standard in previous PSC research in both middle - class30, 33 - 35 and low - income minority populations.8