Three informants' reports of child behavior: Parents, teachers, and foster parents
Three informants' reports of child behavior: Parents, teachers, and foster parents
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DOI：
10.1097/01.chi.0000085753.71002.da
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发表时间：
2003-11-01
影响因子：
13.3
通讯作者：
Ganger, W
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作者：
Randazzo, KV;Landsverk, J;Ganger, W
目的：探讨亲生父母与养父母、教师在报告儿童行为问题上的分歧是否与亲生父母的抑郁症状有关。方法：对1990~1991年间95名5~16岁寄养儿童的父母、寄养父母和教师填写儿童行为量表和教师报告表。用流行病学研究中心抑郁量表评估亲生父母的抑郁症状。结构方程模型被用来估计父母抑郁症状与他们的报告与另外两个告密者的报告之间的差异之间的关系。结果：在内化和外化行为模型中，父母的抑郁症状与他们在报告中的差异显著相关，而与孩子的行为无关。这种关系对于内部化的模型比外部化的模型更强。结论：与两个独立的报告相比，使用养父母(和教师)作为告密者提供了一个独特的机会来查看亲生父母的报告。养父母的观察情况与亲生父母相似，但在行为观察中不那么情绪化，即使他们是亲戚也是如此。父母的抑郁症状很可能扭曲了他们对孩子行为的报告。临床医生将明智地用其他告密者报告来补充父母。
Objective: To evaluate whether disagreements in reporting child behavior problems between biological parents and foster parents and teachers are related to depressive symptoms in the biological parent. Method: Child Behavior Checklists and Teacher's Report Forms were completed by parents, foster parents, and teachers on 95 foster children between ages 5 and 16 during 1990-1991. Depressive symptoms in biological parents were assessed using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Structural equation modeling was used to estimate the relation between parental depressive symptoms and the discrepancies between their reports and those of two other informants. Results: In both the internalizing and externalizing behavior models, a significant relation was found between parents' depressive symptoms and their discrepancies in reporting, but not with child behavior. This relation was stronger for internalizing than externalizing models. Conclusions: Using foster parents (and teachers) as informants offered a unique opportunity to view the reports of biological parents in comparison to two independent reports. Foster parents have a similar observational situation as biological parents but bring a less emotionally invested perspective to behavior observation, even when they are relatives. It is likely that depressive symptoms in parents distort their reports of their children's behavior. Clinicians would be wise to supplement parental with other informant reports.