Strategic objectives for improving understanding of informant discrepancies in developmental psychopathology research
Strategic objectives for improving understanding of informant discrepancies in developmental psychopathology research
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DOI：
10.1017/s0954579413000096
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发表时间：
2013-08-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
De Los Reyes, Andres
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作者：
De Los Reyes, Andres
发展精神病理学研究人员和从业人员通常使用多个举报人的报告（例如，父母、教师、从业人员、儿童和实验室观察员）进行行为评估。这些评估往往在发展精神病理学研究的重要问题上得出不一致的结论，这取决于提供信息的人（例如，精神病学诊断和障碍的危险因素）。研究人员已经从理论上解释了信息提供者差异存在的原因，并提出了信息提供者差异的方法模型。然而，超过50年的经验数据揭示了这些差异的存在，使实践中对研究结果和评估结果的解释复杂化，并与提供报告的举报人的某些特征（例如人口统计和情绪水平）相关。此外，最近的研究经常得出结论，即采取多信息来源方法进行临床和发展评估的重要性。研究人员从他们的工作中得出了这些结论，尽管多信息来源的评估方法长期以来一直是临床和发展评估最佳实践的一部分。因此，发展精神病理学研究人员和从业人员迫切需要一套重点研究优先事项，其关键目标是快速推进有关信息提供者差异的知识。在本文中，我讨论了这些研究重点，回顾了表明开展研究解决这些优先事项的可行性的工作，并详细说明了研究人员和从业人员将从研究中获得什么关于发展精神病理学研究中信息提供者差异的知识。
Developmental psychopathology researchers and practitioners commonly conduct behavioral assessments using multiple informants' reports (e. g., parents, teachers, practitioners, children, and laboratory observers). These assessments often yield inconsistent conclusions about important questions in developmental psychopathology research, depending on the informant (e.g., psychiatric diagnoses and risk factors of disorder). Researchers have theorized why informant discrepancies exist and advanced methodological models of informant discrepancies. However, over 50 years of empirical data has uncovered little knowledge about these discrepancies beyond that they exist, complicate interpretations of research findings and assessment outcomes in practice, and correlate with some characteristics of the informants providing reports (e.g., demographics and mood levels). Further, recent studies often yield take-home messages about the importance of taking a multi-informant approach to clinical and developmental assessments. Researchers draw these conclusions from their work, despite multi-informant approaches to assessment long being a part of best practices in clinical and developmental assessments. Consequently, developmental psychopathology researchers and practitioners are in dire need of a focused set of research priorities with the key goal of rapidly advancing knowledge about informant discrepancies. In this paper, I discuss these research priorities, review work indicating the feasibility of conducting research addressing these priorities, and specify what researchers and practitioners would gain from studies advancing knowledge about informant discrepancies in developmental psychopathology research.