Keywords

• The study explores the relationship between the performance in two cognitive tests and the emotional and behavioral problems revealed by cbcl/4-18 in a non clinical sample. We administered cpm/spm and three sub-tests of tomal (forward digit span
• backward digit span
• and visual-sequential memory) to 320 children from 6 to 13 years. Their parents completed cbcl/4-18. This study demonstrates a meaningful relationship between cognitive abilities and some syndromic scales and confirms the utility of cbcl as a screening instrument. Parents ability to register signs of difficulties in their children is an invaluable resource for prevention. However
• cbcl provides only indirect information about the child's intellectual resources. Hence
• cbcl could be integrated by some cognitive tests
• taking into consideration the way in which they would be administered. The collective instruments
• which are typically preferred in large scale screenings
• could be misleading because they were unable to reveal adequately neither the difficulties of the internalizing children
• nor the positive potential of the externalizing children