Achenbach's Child Behavior Checklist and Teachers' Report Form in a normative sample of Greek children 6-12 years old

Achenbach's Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Teachers' Report Form (TRF) were administered to 6-12 year old school children comprising a large rand om community sample (n = 1200) drawn from the whole of Greece. These are th e first data on the TRF in Greece and the first nation-wide data on the CBC L. Appropriate cutoff points for the behavioral problems and competence sca les of both questionnaires were obtained for boys and girls. These were con siderably higher than USA cutoffs for the CBCL but not for the TRF. Analysi s of scores in relation to degree of urbanization showed that it was not ne cessary to define different cutoffs in different strata. Parents' and teach ers' ratings of the same child were most highly correlated for Externalizin g and Aggressive behavior for boys and for Attention problems for both sexe s.