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Beck Youth Inventories - 2nd Edition (BYI-II)
Beck Youth Inventories - 2nd Edition (BYI-II)
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Please visit this website for more information about the instrument: Beck Youth Inventories - 2nd Edition
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| Classification |
Supplemental - Highly Recommended: Mitochondrial Disease (Mito)
Recommendations for use: Indicated for studies seeking to assess emotional and social functioning in children and adolescents with mitochondrial disease.
Supplemental: Spinal Cord Inventory (SCI)-Pediatric
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| Short Description of Instrument |
Published in 2005, the BYI-II is used to evaluate children's and adolescent's emotional and social impairment. This is a self-report form that assesses each area over the past two weeks. Inventories may be used individually to isolate specific aspects of a child's mental health.
Age Range: 7-18 years
Time to complete: 5 minutes per inventory (5 inventories of 20 questions each); 30-60 minutes for total instrument
Number of items: 100
Inventories:
Depression
Anxiety
Anger
Disruptive Behavior
Self-Concept
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| Scoring and Psychometric Properties |
Scoring: Uses a 4-point Likert scale from 0 (never) to 3 (always)
Requires a doctorate in psychology, education or a related field with training in the BYI-II.
Psychometric Properties:
Sample for development of norms - 1,278 children and adolescents ages 7-18 from the U.S. Sample was reflective of U.S. population demographics.
Reliability - The authors report internal consistency (alpha) coefficients ranging from 0.86 to 0.96, and test-retest reliability correlation coefficients ranging from 0.74 to 0.93. Another study found alphas of 0.87 to 0.92, and test-retest coefficients that were all greater than 0.70.
Validity - The authors report evidence of good concurrent validity for each of the individual inventories (except the anger inventory) with measures of those constructs (e.g., the depression inventory with the Children's Depression Inventory), and discriminative validity. A further study found that while the BYI could differentiate between clinical and non-clinical samples, it was not able to reliably discriminate between internalizing disorders, with the exception of depression.
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| Rationale/Justification |
Strengths:
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| References |
Key References:
Beck JS, Beck AT, Jolly JB, Steer RA. Beck Youth Inventories, Second Edition for Children and Adolescents (BYI-II). San Antonio, Texas: Harcourt Assessment, Inc.; 2005.
Steer RA, Kumar G, Beck AT, Beck JS. Dimensionality of the Beck Youth Inventories With Child Psychiatric Outpatients. J Psychopath Behav Assess. 2005;27(2):123-31.
Steer RA, Kumar G, Beck JS, Beck AT. Evidence for the construct validities of the Beck Youth Inventories with child psychiatric outpatients. Psychol Rep. 2001 Dec;89(3):559-65.
Additional References:
Magan I, Sanz J, Garcia-Vera MP. Psychometric properties of a Spanish version of the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) in general population. Span J Psychol. 2008 Nov;11(2):626-40.
Mathiak KA, Karzel K, Ocypa M, Seget A, Mathiak K, Ostaszewski P. Kwestionariusz Becka dla Dzieci do oceny zaburzen emocjonalnych i spolecznych--polska adaptacja i walidacja kwestionariusza Beck Youth Inventories of Emotional and Social Impairment [Polish adaptation and validation of beck youth inventories of emotional and social impairment]. Psychiatr Pol. 2007 May-Jun;41(3):387-99.
Stapleton LM, Sander JB, Stark KD. Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory for Youth in a sample of girls. Psychol Assess. 2007 Jun;19(2):230-5.
Thastum M, Ravn K, Sommer S, Trillingsgaard A. Reliability, validity and normative data for the Danish Beck Youth Inventories. Scand J Psychol. 2009 Feb;50(1):47-54.
Document last updated March 2024
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