Correction of distortion in distressed mothers' ratings of their preschool-aged children's Internalizing and Externalizing scale score

Müller, Jörg; Romer, Georg; Achtergarde, Sandra

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2013.10.035

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“…Richters (1992) hypothesized that dysfunctional emotions related to depression activate a negative perceptual bias in mothers’ ratings of their children’s behaviors, which leads to reporting of greater difficulties in their children’s behavior. This hypothesis has been supported by many empirical studies (e.g., Chi & Hinshaw, 2002; Müller, Romer, & Achtergarde, 2013).…”

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Parent Discrepancies in Ratings of Child Behaviors Following Wartime Deployment

Chesmore

Zhang

et al. 2018

Journal of Traumatic Stress

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Researchers have shown that parents often disagree in their ratings of their children's behavior, and that these discrepancies are typically related to child and family characteristics (e.g., child's age, parent psychopathology). Few studies, however, have examined discrepancies in how mothers and fathers rate child behavior during a stressful family context such as a parent's wartime deployment. The present study of 174 military families (children aged 6 to 11 years; 54.0% female) examined whether family factors (parental sense of control, marital satisfaction) and contextual risk factors related to a parent's wartime deployment (number and length of deployments, battle experiences, and posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD] symptoms) were associated with discrepancies in how mothers and fathers rated internalizing and externalizing behaviors in their children. Using a latent congruency model, our results showed that when parents self-reported higher levels of PTSD symptoms, both mothers, β = -.33, p = .021, and fathers, β = .41, p = .026, tended to also report higher levels of internalizing symptoms in their child, relative to what their spouse reported. In comparison to mothers, fathers also tended to report higher levels of child externalizing symptoms, β = .44, p = .019. Our findings may help clinicians understand how parent mental health within a stressful family context relates and/or informs a parent's ratings on assessments of his or her child's internalizing and externalizing symptoms.

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Parent Discrepancies in Ratings of Child Behaviors Following Wartime Deployment

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Zhang

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“…A third explanation for the smaller effects observed in our study is that women who were distressed (in the treated and/or untreated groups) rated their children as having fewer problems on the SDQ for actual level of child problems, relative to mothers without CMD. We think this unlikely as maternal distress has generally been associated with higher child problematic behaviour ratings [ 47 , 48 ]; however, differential effects may have distorted our findings [ 49 ]. Fourth, we examined treatment for anxiety, depression, mixed disorders and symptomology, not just depression, which was the subject of the meta-analyses.…”

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Maternal psychological distress in primary care and association with child behavioural outcomes at age three

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Pickett

Croudace

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Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Observational studies indicate children whose mothers have poor mental health are at increased risk of socio-emotional behavioural difficulties, but it is unknown whether these outcomes vary by the mothers’ mental health recognition and treatment status. To examine this question, we analysed linked longitudinal primary care and research data from 1078 women enrolled in the Born in Bradford cohort. A latent class analysis of treatment status and self-reported distress broadly categorised women as (a) not having a common mental disorder (CMD) that persisted through pregnancy and the first 2 years after delivery (N = 756, 70.1 %), (b) treated for CMD (N = 67, 6.2 %), or (c) untreated (N = 255, 23.7 %). Compared to children of mothers without CMD, 3-year-old children with mothers classified as having untreated CMD had higher standardised factor scores on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (d = 0.32), as did children with mothers classified as having treated CMD (d = 0.27). Results were only slightly attenuated in adjusted analyses. Children of mothers with CMD may be at risk for socio-emotional and behavioural difficulties. The development of effective treatments for CMD needs to be balanced by greater attempts to identify and treat women.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00787-015-0777-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…Our analysis did not include further potential risk factors like marital status, number of siblings, and others. Finally, diagnostic assessments at preschool age face several limitations [see (9, 34–36)].…”

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“…Later, (3) replicated Lahey et al's results for a community sample of children (Alspac study; N > 1.500 children from 7.5 to 14 years), but that study was based on quasi-diagnoses (derived from dimensional measures of psychopathology, especially from externalizing problems, such as ADHD, to internalizing disorders). Additional methodological challenges for examining heterotypic development, particularly in samples of children at preschool age, are the uncertainties surrounding clinical diagnoses made by using recently developed clinical interviews [e.g., PAPA from (8)], biases in maternal reports (9), and the higher base rates of normative variation for single clinical symptoms [see (10)] at preschool age.…”

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Homo- and Heterotypic Trajectories in a Preschool to Primary-School Clinical Sample: A Prospective Study Related to Maternal Psychopathology

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Background: Most longitudinal or follow-up mental health studies describe developmental pathways using dimensional measures of psychopathology, but seldom using pathways described by clinical disorders. Objective: We aim to describe diagnostic pathways by homotypic (within the disorder continuity) and heterotypic development (between the disorder continuity), with maternal psychopathology as moderator for both trajectories. Methods: Clinically referred children (0–7 years; N = 83) were assessed at preschool age and at primary-school age through a clinical interview. We built a disorder cluster of emotional disorders (ED; F32, F40, F42, F43, F93.0, F93.1, F93.2, F93.8, F95), behavioral disorders (BD; F68.8, F90, F91, F91.3, F93.3, F93.9, F94), and specific early onset disorders (SEO; F50, F51, F70, F98.0, F98.1, F98.2, F98.8, F98.9). We describe the prevalence, comorbidity, and clinical trajectories of various types of homotypic and heterotypic development. Results: We observed a high rate of comorbidity throughout the study (62.6% at admission and 67.5% at follow-up) and in general, a high continuity of mental health problems from preschool to primary-school age children (69.9% of the sample showed continuity), with 50.6% of the sample showing homotypic and 44.6% showing heterotypic development. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses suggest that heterotypic development may be influenced by maternal psychopathology. Conclusion: Currently, evidence-based mental health guidelines for preschool populations are designed and evaluated assuming a homotypic development. However, our findings indicate that treatment interventions and outcome measures should also be designed and evaluated for heterotypic development especially in case of increased maternal psychopathology.

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Correction of distortion in distressed mothers' ratings of their preschool-aged children's Internalizing and Externalizing scale score

Cited by 23 publications

References 11 publications

Parent Discrepancies in Ratings of Child Behaviors Following Wartime Deployment

Parent Discrepancies in Ratings of Child Behaviors Following Wartime Deployment

Maternal psychological distress in primary care and association with child behavioural outcomes at age three

Homo- and Heterotypic Trajectories in a Preschool to Primary-School Clinical Sample: A Prospective Study Related to Maternal Psychopathology

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