Department of Counseling Psychology & Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2022 Jun;51(6):1153-1168. doi: 10.1007/s10964-022-01601-9. Epub 2022 Mar 31.
Discrepancies in multi-informant reports of parenting practices represent a meaningful clinical construct that can be harnessed to predict adolescent mental health outcomes and shed light on the nature of parent-adolescent relationships. To date, however, no research has sought to examine discrepancies in perceptions of parenting practices among adolescents with histories of substance use disorders, a population for whom supportive parenting is a critical protective factor during the recovery process. This study examined parent-adolescent informant discrepancies of parenting practices and their associations with externalizing and internalizing symptomology among a sample of adolescents with substance use disorder histories. Data were analyzed from 294 adolescents (M adolescent age = 16 years; 45% female, 72% white) and their parents (87% female, 83% white) from a larger longitudinal study. Parenting practices of interest were positive parenting, inconsistent discipline, and poor monitoring. Polynomial regression analyses were used to test the discrepancy hypotheses. The results generally suggested null associations between single informant reports and internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Discrepancies were noted, however, in multi-informant reports of positive parenting, such that higher levels of adolescent-reported positive parenting were associated with higher levels of internalizing symptoms at high (but not low) levels of parent-reported positive parenting. Similarly, discrepancies were noted in multi-informant reports of poor monitoring, such that lower levels of adolescent-poor monitoring were associated with higher externalizing symptoms at low levels of parent-reported poor monitoring. The findings are discussed in terms of research and clinical implications of collecting and utilizing multi-informant data among clinical samples of adolescents with unique risk profiles.
父母教养实践的多 informant 报告中的差异代表了一种有意义的临床结构，可以用来预测青少年心理健康结果，并揭示父母与青少年关系的本质。然而，迄今为止，尚无研究试图检验有物质使用障碍病史的青少年对父母教养实践的看法存在差异，对于这一群体，支持性的父母教养是康复过程中的一个关键保护因素。本研究考察了有物质使用障碍病史的青少年样本中父母与青少年 informant 之间的教养实践差异及其与外化和内化症状的关系。数据来自一项更大的纵向研究中的 294 名青少年（M 青少年年龄=16 岁；45%女性，72%白人）及其父母（87%女性，83%白人）。感兴趣的教养实践包括积极的教养、不一致的纪律和不良的监督。多项式回归分析用于检验差异假设。结果普遍表明，单一 informant 报告与内化和外化症状之间存在零关联。然而，在积极教养的多 informant 报告中存在差异，即青少年报告的积极教养水平越高，在父母报告的积极教养水平较高（但不是较低）时，与内化症状水平越高相关。同样，在不良监督的多 informant 报告中也存在差异，即青少年不良监督水平越低，在父母报告的不良监督水平较低时，与外化症状水平越高相关。研究结果从收集和利用具有独特风险特征的青少年临床样本中的多 informant 数据的研究和临床意义方面进行了讨论。
