DEPRESSED MOTHERS JUDGMENTS ABOUT THEIR CHILDREN - AN EXAMINATION OF THE DEPRESSION-DISTORTION HYPOTHESIS
DEPRESSED MOTHERS JUDGMENTS ABOUT THEIR CHILDREN - AN EXAMINATION OF THE DEPRESSION-DISTORTION HYPOTHESIS
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1989.tb03537.x
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发表时间：
1989-10-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
PELLEGRINI, D
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作者：
RICHTERS, J;PELLEGRINI, D
近年来，认为抑郁的母亲扭曲了对孩子问题的看法的观点越来越流行。目前，这一观点的经验基础只不过是可靠的证据，即抑郁的母亲往往比非抑郁的母亲报告更多的孩子行为问题。一个明显的替代扭曲的解释是，抑郁的母亲是准确的关于他们的孩子的行为问题。我们通过比较老师对孩子的评级与他们母亲提供的评级来检查这些竞争模型，他们的母亲在抑郁情绪、抑郁临床状态和抑郁症史等维度上存在差异。母亲和教师的评级产生了实质上相似的画像的儿童行为问题在组的水平，与儿童的缓解期和发作期的母亲表现出显着更高水平的行为问题比控制母亲的孩子。此外，母亲和教师之间的协议是在中等范围内的所有指标组，并没有显着不同的平均水平的母亲，教师协议的基础上，其他调查员的样本。这些发现的局限性和早期评估抑郁症的报道。扭曲的影响，母亲的评级，他们的孩子被认为是。
The belief that depressed mothers have distorted perceptions of their children''s problems has gained considerable currency in recent years. The empirical basis for this belief at present amounts to little more than reliable demonstrations that depressed mothers tend to report more behavior problems in their children than do nondepressed mothers. An obvious alternative to the distortion interpretation is that depressed mothers are accurate about their children''s behavior problems. We examined these competing models by comparing teachers'' ratings of children with ratings provided by their mothers, who varied on the dimensions of depressed mood, depressed clinical state, and history of depression. Mother''s and teachers'' ratings yielded substantially similar portraits of child behavior problems at the group level, with children of in-remission and in-episode mothers manifesting significantly higher levels of behavior problems than children of control mothers. Moreover, agreement between mothers and teachers was in the moderate range for all index groups and did not differ significantly from the mean level of mother-teacher agreement reported by other investigators based on unselected samples. The limitations of these findings and of earlier reports for assessing a depression .fwdarw. distortion influence on mothers'' ratings of their children are considered.