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Mother‐Child Agreement on the Child Assessment Schedule with Nonreferred Children: a Research Note
Author(s) -
Thompson Robert J.,
Merritt Kathy A.,
Keith Barbara R.,
Murphy Laura Bennett,
Johndrow David A.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.tb01073.x
Subject(s) - concordance , psychology , developmental psychology , agreement , clinical psychology , medicine , linguistics , philosophy
This study replicated with nonreferred children the finding with psychiatrically referred children that mother‐child concordance was a function of symptom type. Low mother‐child concordance for internalizing problems and moderate concordance for externalizing problems characteristic of psychiatric samples was found to generalize to nonreferred children. Furthermore, mother‐child concordance was also found to be a function of child gender and age. The implications of these findings for screening or assessment of nonreferred children were examined.