AbstractChild Behavior Checklists completed by parents of 1848 clinically referred American and Dutch girls aged 6–11 and 12–16 were subjected to principal components analyses with varimax rotations. For the 6–11 yr age group, seven of the nine empirically derived syndromes showed cross‐national correlations ranging from 0.80 to 0.98. For 12–16‐yr‐old girls, all eight of the American syndromes were firmly replicated for Dutch girls with correlations ranging from 0.84 to 0.97. Furthermore, cross‐national similarities in the distribution of scores for normative samples supported the use of the same syndrome scales by clinicians and researchers in th
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