Measuring children’s emotional and behavioural problems: are SDQ parent reports from native and immigrant parents comparable?

Table 4 Differential Item Functioning in the German native and Turkish origin subgroups

Item	Non-uniform DIF		Uniform DIF
Item	χ² 23	ΔR²	χ² 12	ΔR²	Δβ12
22. Steals from home, school or elsewhere	0.00	0.0187	0.00	0.0314	0.0051
23. Gets on better with adults than with other children	0.02	0.0025	0.00	0.0294	0.0063
11. Has at least one good friend	0.05	0.0073	0.00	0.0828	0.0473

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