Are discrepancies among child, mother, and father reports on children's behavior related to parents' psychological symptoms and aspects of parent-child relationships? Journal of abnormal child psychology. [J Abnorm Child Psychol] Journal article | | Title | Are discrepancies among child, mother, and father reports on children's behavior related to parents' psychological symptoms and aspects of parent-child relationships? | | Author(s) | Treutler CM, Epkins CC | | Institution | Department of Psychology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-2051, USA. | | Source | J Abnorm Child Psychol 2003 Feb; 31(1):13-27. | | MeSH | Adult
Child
Child Behavior Disorders
Comparative Study
Father-Child Relations
Fathers
Female
Humans
Internal-External Control
Male
Mother-Child Relations
Mothers
Observer Variation
Parenting
Personality Assessment
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
| | Abstract | Examined whether parents' symptoms and qualitative and quantitative aspects of parent-child relationships make unique contributions to mothers' and fathers' reports of, and mother-child, father-child, and father-mother discrepancies on, children's behavior. Participants were 100 children, aged 10-12, and their mothers and fathers. Parents' symptoms and parent-child relationships made unique contributions to both parents' ratings of externalizing behavior. Although parent-child relationship variables were related to both parents' ratings of internalizing behavior, only parents' symptoms made unique contributions. On mother-child and father-child discrepancies, differences emerged between mother and father, and internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Both fathers' and mothers' symptoms contributed to father-mother discrepancies on both behavior types, with parent-child relationships contributing unique variance to discrepancies on internalizing behavior. Results highlight the importance of each informant's symptoms and relationship variables in understanding informant discrepancies. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 12597696 |
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