Parent-Adolescent Cross-Informant Agreement in Clinically Referred Samples: Findings From Seven Societies

Rescorla, Leslie A; Ewing, Grace; et al; Aebi, Marcel

doi:10.1080/15374416.2016.1266642

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Rescorla, L. A., Ewing, G., et al, & Aebi, M. (2017). Parent-Adolescent Cross-Informant Agreement in Clinically Referred Samples: Findings From Seven Societies. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 46(1), 74–87. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2016.1266642

Abstract

To conduct international comparisons of parent-adolescent cross-informant agreement in clinical samples, we analyzed ratings on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Youth Self-Report (YSR) for 6,762 clinically referred adolescents ages 11-18 from 7 societies (M = 14.5 years, SD = 2.0 years; 51% boys). Using CBCL and YSR data, we asked the following questions: (a) Do parents report more problems for their adolescent children than the adolescents report about themselves? (b) How do cross-informant correlations (rs) for scale scores d