Parent and youth report of youth anxiety: evidence for measurement invariance

Dirks, Melanie A.; Weersing, V. Robin; Warnick, Erin M.; González, Araceli; Alton, Megan E.; Dauser, Christine; Scahill, Lawrence; Woolston, Joseph L.

doi:10.1111/jcpp.12159

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“…Second, we present an applied example of the importance of testing measurement invariance across informants, particularly parents and children. Our results build on the previous work of both Dirks et al (2014) and Janssens et al (2015) by explicating that conceptual similarity across informants or shared item content on forms, are not enough. Prior to comparing mean levels of any constructs, researchers should take care to ensure that the same constructs have been captured in all groups by testing the invariance of their measurements.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 65%

“…The authors identified partial measurement invariance, suggesting that measurement operation was largely equivalent across informants. Dirks et al (2014) found support for partial measurement invariance of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders across caregiver-child dyads. Their finding that the measurement of anxiety constructs was not fully equivalent across parent and child reports may be representative of a larger, unidentified issue in clinical multiple-informant assessment.…”

Section: The Case For Measurement Invariancementioning

confidence: 88%

“…Drawing from the work of Dirks et al (2014) who found support for partial measurement invariance across parent and child reports in an anxiety measure, we similarly hypothesize that the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire will demonstrate approximate (though not full) measurement invariance across informants. This hypothesis is further encouraged by the rarity with which researchers have found support for full measurement invariance across three or more groups .…”

Section: The Current Studymentioning

confidence: 93%

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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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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 65%

Section: The Case For Measurement Invariancementioning

confidence: 88%

Section: The Current Studymentioning

confidence: 93%

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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

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J Youth Adolescence

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“…If informants' reports do not come from measures for which their scores carry the same properties, then differences between reports might be parsimoniously explained by measurement error. Consequently, in recent years research on multi-informant assessment has focused on the measurement invariance of parallel forms administered to multiple informants (e.g., Dirks et al 2014), or whether scores from reports of multiple informants can be meaningfully interpreted as carrying the same or similar psychometric properties. However, only recently have these methods begun to be applied to understanding the measurement invariance of adolescents' and parents' reports of family functioning (e.g., Gross et al 2016;Janssens et al 2015).…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Discrepancies in Adolescent–Parent Perceptions of the Family and Adolescent Adjustment

Reyes

Ohannessian

2016

J Youth Adolescence

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Researchers commonly rely on adolescents' and parents' reports to assess family functioning (e.g., conflict, parental monitoring, parenting practices, relationship quality). Recent work indicates that these reports may vary as to whether they converge or diverge in estimates of family functioning. Further, patterns of converging or diverging reports may yield important information about adolescent adjustment and family functioning. This work is part of a larger literature seeking to understand and interpret multi-informant assessments of psychological phenomena, namely mental health. In fact, recent innovations in conceptualizing, measuring, and analyzing multi-informant mental health assessments might meaningfully inform efforts to understand multi-informant assessments of family functioning. Therefore, in this Special Issue we address three aims. First, we provide a guiding framework for using and interpreting multi-informant assessments of family functioning, informed by recent theoretical work focused on using and interpreting multi-informant mental health assessments. Second, we report research on adolescents' and parents' reports of family functioning that leverages the latest methods for measuring and analyzing patterns of convergence and divergence between informants' reports. Third, we report research on measurement invariance and its role in interpreting adolescents' and parents' reports of family functioning. Research and theory reported in this Special Issue have important implications for improving our understanding of the links between multi-informant assessments of family functioning and adolescent adjustment.

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“…We were limited to mother-reported child anxiety at this age. Typically, mother-report of anxiety underestimates self-reported child anxiety (Dirks et al, 2014). Therefore, any bias in mother-reported anxiety in this study may be towards under-identification.…”

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Anxiety at 13 and its effect on pain, pain-related anxiety, and pain-related disability at 17: An ALSPAC cohort longitudinal analysis

Fisher

Caes

Clinch

et al. 2015

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of anxiety at 13 years of age on the presence of chronic pain, pain-related anxiety, and pain-related disability at 17 years of age in a large longitudinal cohort. We hypothesized that mother-reported anxiety at 13 would be associated with the presence of chronic pain at 17 and an increase in pain-related anxiety using all available data from the longitudinal cohort. Further, we hypothesized that anxiety at 13 would predict pain-related disability in adolescents who reported chronic pain at 17 years of age. Participants were recruited from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children based in the UK who attended a university research clinic at 17. Child anxiety (reported by the mother) was extracted at child age 13, and self-report of the presence of chronic pain, pain-related anxiety, and pain-related disability at 17. Analyses revealed that child anxiety at 13 was not significantly associated with the presence of chronic pain at 17 (n = 842). However, anxiety at 13 was significantly associated with pain-related anxiety at 17 (n = 1831). For the subsample of adolescents who reported chronic pain, anxiety at 13 was associated with pain-related disability at 17 (n = 393). Further analyses revealed that painrelated anxiety at 17 mediated the association between anxiety at 13 and pain-related disability at 17, suggesting that pain-related anxiety should be a target for treatment in adolescents with chronic pain, to reduce the impact of pain in later adolescence. General anxiety at 13 was unrelated to the presence of chronic pain at 17 but should be considered a risk factor for later pain-related anxiety and disability in a subset of adolescents who develop chronic pain.

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Parent and youth report of youth anxiety: evidence for measurement invariance

Cited by 40 publications

References 34 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

Introduction to the Special Issue: Discrepancies in Adolescent–Parent Perceptions of the Family and Adolescent Adjustment

Anxiety at 13 and its effect on pain, pain-related anxiety, and pain-related disability at 17: An ALSPAC cohort longitudinal analysis

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