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10-06-2025 | Research

Longitudinal Changes in Preschoolers’ Self-reported Psychological and Social Problems: Feasibility, Reliability, and Cross-informant Agreement

Auteurs: Meingold Hiu-Ming Chan, Xin Feng, Yihui Gong, Karis Inboden

Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development

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Abstract

For decades, parental reports were used to assess children’s psychological symptoms and social problems. The Berkeley Puppet Interview (BPI) utilizes hand puppets to collect questionnaire-style interview data from children, allowing consideration of children’s own perspective. The current longitudinal study compared the feasibility and reliability of preschoolers’ self-report with BPI at age 4 (M = 4.03, SD = 0.16; 52% boy, 82% White American) and 5 (M = 5.22, SD = 0.36) as well as cross-informant agreement among children, mothers, alternate caregivers (> 90% biological fathers), and coders. Children completed Symptom, Prosocial, and Parenting scales of BPI and their parents completed surveys assessing similar constructs. Our findings revealed both similarities and changes across ages. Specifically, the reliability and cross-informant agreement of the broad Symptom and Parenting scales were promising at both timepoints; however, 4-year-olds showed lower internal consistency in Social scales. Recommendations for how to refine and utilize BPI appropriately in young children in future research and the importance of cross-informant design were discussed.
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Titel
Longitudinal Changes in Preschoolers’ Self-reported Psychological and Social Problems: Feasibility, Reliability, and Cross-informant Agreement
Auteurs
Meingold Hiu-Ming Chan
Xin Feng
Yihui Gong
Karis Inboden
Publicatiedatum
10-06-2025
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Child Psychiatry & Human Development
Print ISSN: 0009-398X
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3327
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-025-01864-w