The Influence of Distress on Mothers' and Fathers' Reports of Childhood Emotional and Behavioral Problems |
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| Authors: | Michael G. Sawyer David L. Streiner Peter Baghurst |
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| Affiliation: | (1) University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, 5005;(2) Research and Evaluation Unit, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 5006;(3) McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, L8N 3Z5;(4) Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Adelaide, Australia, 5000 |
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| Abstract: | This study examined the effect of parental distress on mothers' and fathers' reports of children's emotional and behavioral problems. The subjects were the parents of 696 children aged 10 to 11 or 14 to 15 years living in two-parent families in the community. The study utilized an extended version of the model previously employed by Fergusson, Lynskey, and Horwood (1993) to examine the impact of maternal depression on mothers' reports of children's behavior. In the present study, the extended model was used to assess the impact of distress on reports of childhood externalizing and internalizing problems obtained from both mothers and fathers. The results suggested that distress had little influence on mothers' or fathers' reports of childhood behavior problems. It is concluded that in community studies the size of any bias in mothers' and fathers' reports of childhood behavior problems due to parental distress is likely to be very small and of little clinical significance. |
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| Keywords: | Assessment parent distress children emotional and behavioral problems |
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