Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a widely used checklist that includes questions about conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention, peer relationship problems, and prosocial behavior. The checklist style rating form is easy to complete with only about 5 items per subscale, and can be completed by parents or teachers. Although many studies use this or the CBCL (Achenbach Child Behavior Check List), the SDQ is generally more reliable for low-risk populations.
The SDQ is designed for use with children and adolescents and is suitable for both school and clinical settings. It is often used for early screening, monitoring, or referral decisions related to social-emotional and behavioral development.
Organization
Topic
Collection Category(ies)
Content
Grades
< 3 Years,
Pre-Kindergarten,
Kindergarten
Languages
Spanish,
Chinese,
Amharic,
Arabic,
Czech,
Danish,
Dutch,
Finnish,
French,
Georgian,
German,
Greek,
Hebrew,
Hindi,
Icelandic,
Italian,
Japanese,
Korean,
Lithuanian,
Malay,
Nepali,
Polish,
Portuguese (Portugal),
Portuguese (Brazil),
Romanian,
Russian,
Serbian,
Sinhalese,
Swedish,
Thai,
Turkish,
Urdu,
Haitian Creole,
American Sign Language,
Chichewa/Nyanja,
Afrikaans,
Bengali,
Bulgarian,
Croatian,
Estonian,
Gujarati,
Hungarian,
Igbo,
Kannada,
Latvian,
Malayalam,
Mongolian,
Punjabi,
Slovak,
Tagalog,
Ukrainian,
Vietnamese,
Zulu,
Albanian,
Basque,
British Sign Language,
Catalan,
Indonesian,
Farsi,
Slovene,
Azeri,
Chinese (Simplified),
Dari,
English (Austral),
English (UK),
English (USA),
Gaelic,
Gallego,
Greenlandic,
Hausa,
Hmong,
Irish,
Khmer,
Kurdish,
Macedonian,
Maltese,
Maori,
Norwegian (Bokmal),
Norwegian (Nynorsk),
NSL Norwegian Sign Language,
Oromo,
Pashto,
Sami,
Somali,
Spanish (Rio de la Plata),
Swahili,
Welsh,
Xhosa,
Yoruba
Respondent
Teacher,
Parent
Administration Information
Length
25 items
Qualifications
None indicated
Access and Use
Developer
Robert Goodman, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London
Price
Free
Contact
sdqscore@youthinmind.com
Open Access
Yes
Use in Research
Collie, R. J. (2022). "Instructional support, perceived social-emotional competence, and students' behavioral and emotional well-being outcomes." Educational Psychology 42(1): 4-22.DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2021.1994127
D'Souza, S., T. Stewart, S. Gerritsen, A. Gibbons and S. Duncan (2021). "Preschool behavioural and emotional outcomes associated with participation in early childhood education and care." Early Education and Development, 34(1), 228–242. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2021.1995687
de Ruiter, J. A., A. M. Poorthuis and H. M. Koomen (2021). "Teachers' emotional labor in response to daily events with individual students: The role of teacher-student relationship quality." Teaching and Teacher Education 107: 1-12.DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2021.103467
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Goodman R (1997) The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A Research Note. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 38, 581-586. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01545.x.
Item Type
Likert
