Unfamiliar Untrained Observers’ Ratings of Adolescent Safety Behaviors Within Social Interactions with Unfamiliar Peer Confederates

Rezeppa, Taylor L.; Okuno, Hide; Qasmieh, Noor; Racz, Sarah J.; Borelli, Jessica L.; Reyes, Andres De Los

doi:10.1016/j.beth.2020.07.006

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“…UUOs completed these same measures based on observations of the adolescents’ behavior during video recordings of the Unfamiliar Peer Paradigm. Extensive descriptions of each of the measures in our battery (i.e., psychometric properties, example items, response options) can be found in prior work (see Rausch et al, 2017 ; Deros et al, 2018 ; Karp et al, 2018 ; Qasmieh et al, 2018 ; De Los Reyes et al, 2019c ; Botkin et al, 2021 ; Rezeppa et al, 2021 ).…”

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“…Informants indicate the frequency the different safety behaviors on a 5-point scale ranging from “1” to “5” with higher scores indicating higher levels of safety behaviors. Informants’ reports of adolescents on the SAFE display high levels of internal consistency (α > 0.80) and distinguish adolescents’ on referral status ( Thomas et al, 2012b ; Qasmieh et al, 2018 ; Rezeppa et al, 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In essence, these UUOs comprise the third satellite involved in implementing the Satellite Model. In fact, recent work finds that UUOs’ reports of adolescents’ covert avoidance behaviors (i.e., safety behaviors) relate to both adolescents’ self-reports of these behaviors and adolescents’ social skills as displayed within the Unfamiliar Peer Paradigm ( Rezeppa et al, 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Building off of recent work ( Makol et al, 2020 ; Rezeppa et al, 2021 ), the current study provides the first construct validation test of the Satellite Model for integrating scores taken from a battery of three informants’ reports (i.e., parents, adolescents, and UUOs). We leveraged a battery of six survey measures of adolescent mental health, and ran six independent PCAs in line with the Satellite Model.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The basis of this prediction lies in two aspects of our independent observers’ ratings. First, prior work indicates that all three informants’ reports (i.e., parents, adolescents, and UUOs) each relate to independent observers’ ratings (see Glenn et al, 2019 ; Makol et al, 2020 ; Rezeppa et al, 2021 ). In this respect, relations between these reports and ratings of observed behavior generalize across informants’ contexts and perspectives (i.e., trait score).…”

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Integrating multi-informant reports of youth mental health: A construct validation test of Kraemer and colleagues’ (2003) Satellite Model

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Accurately assessing youth mental health involves obtaining reports from multiple informants who typically display low levels of correspondence. This low correspondence may reflect situational specificity. That is, youth vary as to where they display mental health concerns and informants vary as to where and from what perspective they observe youth. Despite the frequent need to understand and interpret these informant discrepancies, no consensus guidelines exist for integrating informants’ reports. The path to building these guidelines starts with identifying factors that reliably predict the level and form of these informant discrepancies, and do so for theoretically and empirically relevant reasons. Yet, despite the knowledge of situational specificity, few approaches to integrating multi-informant data are well-equipped to account for these factors in measurement, and those that claim to be well-positioned to do so have undergone little empirical scrutiny. One promising approach was developed roughly 20 years ago by Kraemer and colleagues (2003). Their Satellite Model leverages principal components analysis (PCA) and strategic selection of informants to instantiate situational specificity in measurement, namely components reflecting variance attributable to the context in which informants observe behavior (e.g., home/non-home), the perspective from which they observe behavior (e.g., self/other), and behavior that manifests across contexts and perspectives (i.e., trait). The current study represents the first construct validation test of the Satellite Model. A mixed-clinical/community sample of 134 adolescents and their parents completed six parallel surveys of adolescent mental health. Adolescents also participated in a series of simulated social interactions with research personnel trained to act as same-age, unfamiliar peers. A third informant (unfamiliar untrained observer) viewed these interactions and completed the same surveys as parents and adolescents. We applied the Satellite Model to each set of surveys and observed high internal consistency estimates for each of the six-item trait (α = 0.90), context (α = 0.84), and perspective (α = 0.83) components. Scores reflecting the trait, context, and perspective components displayed distinct patterns of relations to a battery of criterion variables that varied in the context, perspective, and source of measurement. The Satellite Model instantiates situational specificity in measurement and facilitates unifying conceptual and measurement models of youth mental health.

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