Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2021 Oct;62(10):1195-1201. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13394. Epub 2021 Feb 26.
Mood-state biases in maternal reports of emotional and behavioral problems in their children have been a major concern for the field. However, few studies have addressed this issue from a measurement invariance perspective.
Using data from baseline assessment of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study (n = 8,507 mother-child dyads; youth aged 9-11 years), we examined how dimensions of maternal psychopathology, including internalizing problems, were associated with indices of bias in reports of their children's dimensions of internalizing, externalizing, neurodevelopmental, detachment, somatoform psychopathology using moderated non-linear factor analysis. Moderated non-linear factor analyses examined multiple potential biases in maternal reports of youth psychopathology.
Across analyses, we found very small magnitudes of associations between dimensions of maternal psychopathology and biases in reports of child emotional and behavioral problems.
Based on these results, we find little psychometric evidence for maternal psychopathology biasing reports of child behavior problems.
母亲对子女情绪和行为问题的报告中存在情绪状态偏差,这一直是该领域的主要关注点。然而,从测量不变性的角度来看,很少有研究解决这个问题。
利用青少年大脑认知发展研究(ABCD 研究)基线评估的数据(n=8507 对母子对;青少年年龄为 9-11 岁),我们使用调节非线性因子分析,研究了母亲的精神病理学维度(包括内化问题)如何与报告其子女内化、外化、神经发育、分离、躯体形式精神病理学的维度的偏差指数相关。调节非线性因子分析检验了母亲对青少年精神病理学报告的多种潜在偏差。
在所有分析中,我们发现母亲精神病理学的维度与报告子女情绪和行为问题的偏差之间的关联程度非常小。
基于这些结果,我们发现母亲精神病理学对报告儿童行为问题存在很少的心理测量证据。