Contribution to the validation of the Child Behavior Scale (CBS): A questionnaire for teachers that measure aggressive, antisocial, and prosocial children behavior in kindergarten and primary school

The Child Behavior Scale (CBS) is a teacher-report questionnaire based on a 3-point scale evaluating 4- to 8-years-old children behavior in school settings. Previous findings have shown that some aspects of children’s behavior in their relationships with peers could be assumed as indexes predicting psychosocial risks. This study aims to translate and test the CBS structure for an Italian experimental sample. Three hundred eightyseven questionnaires were analyzed using a factorial analysis and validity and reliability measures. The results exhibit high validity and reliability for our translated version and confirm the original CBS structure, with some modifications.