Briggs-Gowan M J, Carter A S, Schwab-Stone M
Yale University Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1996 Dec;24(6):749-65. doi: 10.1007/BF01664738.
The relationship between maternal affective symptomatology and discrepancies in maternal reports of child symptoms, relative to teacher and child reports, was evaluated in a community sample of 188 children ages 9-12 years. Mothers, teachers, and children were administered a structured interview about child psychopathology. In general, mothers reported more child behavior problems than children and teachers regardless of maternal symptomatology. However, maternal affective symptoms were associated with discrepancies between mothers' and daughters' reports and between mothers' and teachers' reports of girls' externalizing symptoms. Furthermore, mothers who reported high levels of both anxiety and depressive symptomatology tended to report a large number of symptoms that were not confirmed by either their daughters or teachers. Findings are discussed as possible evidence of the role of maternal affective symptomatology in both actual increases in child symptomatology and maternal reporting distortions. Although maternal depressive and anxiety symptoms shared variance in reporting discrepancies, only anxiety explained unique variance. Consistent with previous studies, cross-informant agreement was modest to moderate (r = .16 to .50) and all informants reported more behavior problems in boys than in girls.
在一个由188名9至12岁儿童组成的社区样本中，研究了母亲的情感症状与母亲报告的儿童症状差异之间的关系，该差异相对于教师和儿童自身的报告而言。母亲、教师和儿童都接受了关于儿童精神病理学的结构化访谈。总体而言，无论母亲的症状如何，母亲报告的儿童行为问题都比儿童和教师报告的更多。然而，母亲的情感症状与母亲和女儿报告之间以及母亲和教师报告女孩外化症状之间的差异有关。此外，报告焦虑和抑郁症状水平都很高的母亲往往报告大量未得到女儿或教师证实的症状。研究结果被讨论为母亲情感症状在儿童症状实际增加和母亲报告偏差中所起作用的可能证据。尽管母亲的抑郁和焦虑症状在报告差异中存在共同变异，但只有焦虑解释了独特的变异。与先前的研究一致，不同信息提供者之间的一致性为中等至适度（r = 0.16至0.50），所有信息提供者都报告男孩的行为问题比女孩更多。
