Children's Perspectives in the Assessment of Family Violence: Psychometric Characteristics and Comparison to Parent Reports

Kolko, David J.; Kazdin, Alan E.; Day, Brian T.

doi:10.1177/1077559596001002007

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“…When the child and parent reports were compared, it was observed that parents tended to underreport CAN, and overreport positive parenting behaviours, as discussed in the past studies (13,14). This observation shows that parents tend to either be unaware of, or deliberately underestimate their abusive behaviours.…”

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Child Maltreatment in Turkey: Comparison of Parent and Child Reports

Sofuoğlu¹,

Sarıyer²,

Ataman³

2016

Cent Eur J Public Health

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SUMMARYBackground and Aim: Child maltreatment, i.e. abuse and neglect, is a significant problem worldwide and can cause impaired physical and mental health throughout life. The true extent still remains unknown in all countries, including Turkey. The aim of this study was to apply the two versions of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) Child Abuse Screening Tool of ICAST-C and ICAST-P, which are used to assess child and parent feedback and to compare reports given by children and those given by parents. This is the first study of its kind conducted in Turkey.Methods: First, ICAST was translated into Turkish by bilingual experts. Students and their parents were asked to complete ICAST-C and ICAST-P respectively, with the help of trained researchers. In total, data from 2,608 matched reports (2,608 children and 2,608 parents) was obtained. Descriptive statistics were used to evaluate demographical variables, and chi-square tests were employed to investigate the statistical significance of comparisons.Results: The present study demonstrated that Turkish parents consider rebukes, insults and corporal punishment effective ways of disciplining children. According to parents' reports, the use of psychological abuse was most prevalent against boys aged 16, while the use of physical abuse was most prevalent against boys aged 13. A statistically significant relationship was found between parents' economic conditions and child abuse (p < 0.01). No significant relationship was detected between maternal educational levels and child abuse (p > 0.05). However, the relationship between paternal educational background and psychological abuse was observed to be significant (p < 0.05). A comparison of children's and parents' reports shows that parents tended to under-report child maltreatment.Conclusions: The results show that there is a significant healthcare problem in Turkey, since child maltreatment is prevalent, but parents are not generally aware of its extent. Possible approaches to changing this situation include efforts to increase education levels, promoting public awareness, and strengthening political commitments.

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“…Parent reports of child maltreatment may involve response bias and provide significant underestimates (13,14). Therefore, in order to determine the prevalence of CAN, child responses are considered as more accurate (15)(16)(17).…”

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Child Maltreatment in Turkey: Comparison of Parent and Child Reports

Sofuoğlu¹,

Sarıyer²,

Ataman³

2016

Cent Eur J Public Health

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“…This is a widely used instrument with several scales designed to measure the extent to which different family members both engage in verbal and/or physical aggression with other family members, and use reasoning to resolve conflicts with other family members. The CTS has demonstrated adequate reliability (e.g., internal consistency and stability) and validity (e.g., concurrent, predictive) (e.g., Kolko, Kazdin, & Day, 1996;Strauss, 1990). For the current study, mothers were asked to rate the level of conflict between them and the child participating in the assessment (i.e., not the level of conflict between them and their children in general).…”

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Informant Discrepancies in Assessing Child Dysfunction Relate to Dysfunction Within Mother-Child Interactions

Reyes

Kazdin

2006

J Child Fam Stud

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Examined whether mother-child discrepancies in perceived child behavior problems relate to dysfunctional interactions between mother and child and stress in the mother. Participants included 239 children (6-16 years old; 58 girls, 181 boys) referred for oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behavior, and their mothers. Mother-child discrepancies in perceived child behavior problems were related to mother-child conflict. Moreover, maternal stress mediated this relationship. The findings suggest that discrepancies among mother and child evaluations of child functioning are not merely reflections of different perspectives or artifacts of the assessment process, but can form components of conceptual models that can be developed and tested to examine the interrelations among critical domains of child, parent, and family functioning. Keywordsattribution bias context; disagreement; discrepancies; stress; conflict Parents, teachers, children, and clinicians are often discrepant in how they perceive and rate the child's social, emotional, and behavioral problems (e.g., Achenbach, McConaughy, & Howell, 1987;De Los Reyes & Kazdin, 2005;Grills & Ollendick, 2002). Discrepancies among informants' ratings, especially those between mothers and children, have been studied extensively to examine correlates of the discrepancies, whether discrepancies are more likely with some disorders rather than others, and whether data from some informants (e.g., mother vs. child) are more useful for some disorders or purposes than others (see De Los Reyes & Kazdin, 2005, for a review).Discrepancies among informants' ratings are often considered as both a clinical reality and methodological nuisance. The clinical reality refers to the fact that informants' perceptions of children's functioning are more often than not disparate from one another, and their ratings simply will differ, even when the same measure (e.g., identical rating scale) is used. The methodological nuisance refers to the fact that clinicians and researchers can obtain quite different results in either a clinical evaluation or research, based on whose views (mother's, child's, teacher's) are assessed, or whether one or all are used to characterize the child. For example, in a given sample, different children will be identified as meeting criteria for a disorder, depending on whose ratings are used or whether informants' ratings are combined (e.g., Kazdin, 1989;Offord et al., 1996; Youngstrom, Findling, & Calabrese, 3 Correspondence regarding this manuscript should be addressed to Alan E. Kazdin, Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, 230 S. Frontage Road, New Haven, CT 06520-7900, alan.kazdin@yale.edu. Note: This paper was forwarded on August 29, 2005, and is not the final version of this article. NIH Public AccessAuthor Manuscript J Child Fam Stud. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2011 January 13. . Similarly, the extent to which individuals improve with treatment and whether one treatment is more effective than another can vary as a function ...

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“…The remaining cases reported aggression toward siblings and other family members (Purcell et al, 2014). Another study that compared parent-reported aggression within community and clinical samples found that 28.3% of clinic-referred sample had perpetrated violence toward their mothers, as compared to 17.3% in the non-clinical sample (Kolko, Kazdin, & Day, 1996). Therefore, child-to-parent aggression is prevalent and possibly more prevalent than sibling aggression.…”

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Adolescents as perpetrators of aggression within the family

Kuay

Lee

Centifanti

et al. 2016

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

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Children's Perspectives in the Assessment of Family Violence: Psychometric Characteristics and Comparison to Parent Reports

Cited by 74 publications

References 32 publications

Child Maltreatment in Turkey: Comparison of Parent and Child Reports

Child Maltreatment in Turkey: Comparison of Parent and Child Reports

Informant Discrepancies in Assessing Child Dysfunction Relate to Dysfunction Within Mother-Child Interactions

Adolescents as perpetrators of aggression within the family

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