• DOI:10.1080/15374416.2012.717870
• Corpus ID: 9140930

Cross-Informant Agreement Between Parent-Reported and Adolescent Self-Reported Problems in 25 Societies

@article{Rescorla2013CrossInformantAB,
  title={Cross-Informant Agreement Between Parent-Reported and Adolescent Self-Reported Problems in 25 Societies},
  author={Leslie A. Rescorla and Sofia Ginzburg and Thomas M. Achenbach and Masha Y Ivanova and Fredrik Almqvist and Ivan Begovac and Niels Bilenberg and Hector R. Bird and Myriam Chahed and Anca Dobrean and Manfred D{\"o}pfner and Neşe Erol and Helga Hannesd{\'o}ttir and Yasuko Kanbayashi and Michael Canute Lambert and Patrick W L Leung and Asghar Minaei and Torunn Stene N{\o}vik and Kyung-Ja Oh and Djaouida Petot and Jean-Michel Petot and Rolando Pomalima and Vlasta Rudan and Michael G Sawyer and Zeynep Şimşek and Hans Christoph Steinhausen and Jos{\'e} de Valverde and Jan van der Ende and Sheila Weintraub and Christa Winkler Metzke and Tomasz Wolańczyk and Eugene Yuqing Zhang and Rita Žukauskienė and Frank C. Verhulst},
  journal={Journal of Clinical Child \& Adolescent Psychology},
  year={2013},
  volume={42},
  pages={262 - 273}
}

• L. Rescorla, S. Ginzburg, +31 authors F. Verhulst
• Published 27 February 2013
• Psychology
• Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

We used population sample data from 25 societies to answer the following questions: (a) How consistently across societies do adolescents report more problems than their parents report about them? (b) Do levels of parent–adolescent agreement vary among societies for different kinds of problems? (c) How well do parents and adolescents in different societies agree on problem item ratings? (d) How much do parent–adolescent dyads within each society vary in agreement on item ratings? (e) How well do parent–adolescent dyads within each society agree on the adolescent's deviance status? We used five methods to test cross-informant agreement for ratings obtained from 27,861 adolescents ages 11 to 18 and their parents. Youth Self-Report (YSR) mean scores were significantly higher than Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) mean scores for all problem scales in almost all societies, but the magnitude of the YSR–CBCL discrepancy varied across societies. Cross-informant correlations for problem scale scores varied more across societies than across types of problems. Across societies, parents and adolescents tended to rate the same items as low, medium, or high, but within-dyad parent–adolescent item agreement varied widely in every society. In all societies, both parental noncorroboration of self-reported deviance and adolescent noncorroboration of parent-reported deviance were common. Results indicated many multicultural consistencies but also some important differences in parent–adolescent cross-informant agreement. Our findings provide valuable normative baselines against which to compare multicultural findings for clinical samples.