Assessment and Diagnosis in Evidence‐Based Practice

Silverman, Wendy K.; Saavedra, Lissette M.

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“…Recognition of the magnitude of parental influence on child development has resulted in numerous attempts to quantitatively assess parenting (Robinson et al 2011;Shelton et al 1996;Strayhorn and Weidman 1988). Generally, the use of multi-informant data collection is considered best practice as it provides information from multiple perspectives across different situations (Hughes and Gullone 2010;Richters 1992;Silverman and Saavedra 2004). Moreover, a vast body of research across constructs such as anxiety , interparental conflict (Davies et al 2012), and conduct problems (Frick et al 2003) has shown that collecting both the parent and child's report of parenting behaviors provides more insight into family and individual functioning than either report alone (see De Los Reyes et al 2013b).…”

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Agreement in Youth–Parent Perceptions of Parenting Behaviors: A Case for Testing Measurement Invariance in Reporter Discrepancy Research

Russell

Graham

Neill

et al. 2016

J Youth Adolescence

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While conventional wisdom suggests that parents and their adolescent offspring will often disagree, the nature of discrepancies in informant reports of parenting behaviors is still unclear. This article suggests testing measurement invariance in an effort to clarify if discrepancies in informant scores reflect true differences in perspectives on the same construct, or if the instrument is simply not measuring the same construct across parents and youth. The study provides an example by examining invariance and discrepancy across child, adolescent, and parent reports on the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire. The sample for this study was 255 youth (51.4 % male) aged 6-17 years (M age = 12.3 years) and an accompanying parent. A five-factor model of the measure was found to provide approximately equivalent measurement across four participant groups (children under 12 years, adolescents aged 12-18 years, and parents of each group, respectively). Latent mean levels of reported parenting constructs varied greatly across informants. Age moderated the association between reports of two subscales, Parental Involvement and Positive Parenting, such that adolescents were more consistent with parents. The findings highlight the utility of testing measurement invariance across informants prior to evaluating differences in their reports, and demonstrate the benefits of considering invariance in the larger conversation over informant discrepancies.

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Agreement in Youth–Parent Perceptions of Parenting Behaviors: A Case for Testing Measurement Invariance in Reporter Discrepancy Research

Russell

Graham

Neill

et al. 2016

J Youth Adolescence

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“…The inclusion of multiple informants in the psychological assessment of children and adolescents has become the norm in clinical and research practice. Most professionals now agree that the assessment process should ideally include the child and his or her parents, as well as other informants as appropriate (Kendall & Flannery‐Schroeder, 1998; Silverman & Saavedra, 2004). This multiinformant approach is purported to be more thorough as it provides information about the child from different perspectives and across different situations, which cannot be gleaned from one informant alone.…”

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Discrepancies between adolescent, mother, and father reports of adolescent internalizing symptom levels and their association with parent symptoms

Hughes

Gullone

2010

J Clin Psychol

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Discrepancies among informants on measures of internalizing symptoms in children and adolescents are common in the literature. One reason proposed for such discrepancies is that psychopathology may distort or bias third-party reports. In the present study, measures of adolescent internalizing symptom levels were completed by adolescents aged 13 to 18 years and their mothers and fathers. Parents also completed measures of their own depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms. Parent symptoms explained a small amount of variance in discrepancies between informants. Specifically, mothers' depression and stress symptoms were associated with discrepancies regarding sons' symptomatology and fathers' anxiety and stress symptoms were associated with discrepancies regarding daughters' symptomatology. Implications of informant discrepancies for both clinical practice and research are discussed.

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“…In addition to providing a solution to the potential problem of unreliable data from child informants, collection of information about student performance from multiple sources and across different settings is considered a hallmark of high-quality assessment (Merrell, 2003; Pepler & Craig, 1998; Silverman & Saavedra, 2004). Documented differences in perspective among sources regarding the same phenomena support the importance of obtaining multiple views (Achenbach, McConaughy, & Howell, 1987; Offord et al, 1996; Pepler & Craig, 1998).…”

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A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Home Environment and Home Social Behavior Data from the Elementary School Success Profile for Families

Wegmann

Thompson

Bowen

2011

Social Work Research

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The purpose of the current study was to test the factor structure and scale quality of data provided by caregivers about the home environment and child behavior at home using the Elementary School Success Profile (ESSP) for Families. The ESSP for Families is one component of the ESSP, an online social–environmental assessment that also collects information from students and teachers. Confirmatory factor analyses with Mplus and weighted least squares means and variances adjusted estimation took into account the hierarchical nature and ordinal level of the data. The sample comprised caregivers of 692 third- through fifth-grade students from 13 elementary schools in four districts. A primary model and an alternative model were tested. Models were tested on a random calibration sample and validated with another sample. A nine-factor first-order solution demonstrated superior fit to the data. Scores from the nine scales also demonstrated acceptable internal consistency reliability. Implications for practice and further research are presented.

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Assessment and Diagnosis in Evidence‐Based Practice

Cited by 8 publications

References 68 publications

Agreement in Youth–Parent Perceptions of Parenting Behaviors: A Case for Testing Measurement Invariance in Reporter Discrepancy Research

Agreement in Youth–Parent Perceptions of Parenting Behaviors: A Case for Testing Measurement Invariance in Reporter Discrepancy Research

Discrepancies between adolescent, mother, and father reports of adolescent internalizing symptom levels and their association with parent symptoms

A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Home Environment and Home Social Behavior Data from the Elementary School Success Profile for Families

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