Thompson R J, Merritt K A, Keith B R, Murphy L B, Johndrow D A
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1993 Jul;34(5):813-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.tb01073.x.
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.
