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01-10-2007 | Original Paper

Adolescent-Mother Agreement about Adolescent Problem Behaviors: Direction and Predictors of Disagreement

Auteurs: Erin T. Barker, Marc H. Bornstein, Diane L. Putnick, Charlene Hendricks, Joan T. D. Suwalsky

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 7/2007

Abstract

Correlations between adolescent and parent reports of adolescent problems are low in magnitude. In community samples adolescents tend to report more problems than parents and in clinical samples adolescents tend to report fewer problems than parents. Indices of agreement may be biased if some adolescents in a given sample report more problems and others report fewer problems than parents. In the current study, order and mean agreement between adolescent and maternal reports of adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems, taking into account the direction of disagreement, was examined in a community sample of 133 young adolescents and their mothers. Two-thirds to three-quarters of adolescents reported more problems than mothers. Accounting for the direction of discrepancies resulted in improved agreement between adolescents and mothers and differing patterns of predictors of discrepancies. Additionally, the results demonstrate the need to control for relations between adolescent-reported problems and discrepancies when exploring predictors of discrepancies.

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Titel: Adolescent-Mother Agreement about Adolescent Problem Behaviors: Direction and Predictors of Disagreement
Auteurs: Erin T. Barker
Marc H. Bornstein
Diane L. Putnick
Charlene Hendricks
Joan T. D. Suwalsky
Publicatiedatum: 01-10-2007
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 7/2007
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-006-9164-0

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