The Caregiver-Teacher Report Form (C-TRF) is an instrument frequently used by researchers and clinicians to assess psychopathology in preschool children based on information from early childhood education and care professionals. However, the measurement invariance of this instrument has not been investigated. Thus, the aim of the current study was to investigate the measurement invariance of the C-TRF for (1) girls vs. boys, and (2) for children below the age of three years old vs. three years or older, as measurement invariance is a prerequisite for a meaningful comparison of latent means between groups. Based on reports of 2904 children from 353 early childhood education and care professionals, our results showed full scalar invariance for an adapted C-TRF model, which supports the applicability of the instrument. However, awareness of the factor Somatic complaints and items with out-of-range parameters is warranted.

看护者-教师报告表 (C-TRF) 是研究人员和临床医生经常使用的一种工具，用于根据幼儿教育和护理专业人员提供的信息来评估学龄前儿童的精神病理学。然而，该仪器的测量不变性尚未得到研究。因此，本研究的目的是调查（1）女孩与男孩，以及（2）三岁以下儿童与三岁或以上儿童的 C-TRF 测量不变性，作为测量不变性是对组间潜在均值进行有意义比较的先决条件。基于来自 353 名幼儿教育和护理专业人员的 2904 名儿童的报告，我们的结果显示了改编后的 C-TRF 模型的完全标量不变性，这支持了该工具的适用性。然而，躯体投诉和参数超出范围的项目是有必要的。