Interrater agreement and discrepancy when assessing problem behaviors, social‐emotional skills, and developmental status of kindergarten children

dc.contributor.authorBergold, Sebastian
dc.contributor.authorChristiansen, Hanna
dc.contributor.authorSteinmayr, Ricarda
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-08T05:48:35Z
dc.date.available2020-04-08T05:48:35Z
dc.date.issued2019-08-01
dc.description.abstractObjective The present study examined parent‐teacher agreement and discrepancy when assessing kindergarten children's behavioral and emotional problems, social‐emotional skills, and developmental status. Method Parents and teachers of overall n = 922 kindergarten children (M age = 3.99; 449 girls) rated the children using the Conners Early Childhood, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, and the Questionnaire for Assessing Preschool Children's Behavior. Results Agreement was moderate for problem behaviors and social‐emotional skills and substantial for developmental status. Agreement was stronger for externalizing than for internalizing problems. Agreement on the clinical relevance of problem behaviors and of social‐emotional skills was stronger for children with a clinical diagnosis than for those without. Parents tended to report more problems, but also greater social‐emotional skills and developmental status, than teachers. Conclusions The findings corroborate the importance of situational specificity for understanding interrater agreement and discrepancy. Future teacher questionnaires should more specifically assess children's functioning in kindergarten.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2003/39087
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-21006
dc.language.isoende
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJ. Clin. Psychol.;75(12)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectExternalizing and internalizing behavioren
dc.subjectInterrater discrepancyen
dc.subjectMultiple informantsen
dc.subjectParent-teacher agreementen
dc.subjectPreschool childrenen
dc.subjectSituational specificityen
dc.subject.ddc150
dc.titleInterrater agreement and discrepancy when assessing problem behaviors, social‐emotional skills, and developmental status of kindergarten childrenen
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eldorado.secondarypublication.primarycitationBergold, S, Christiansen, H, Steinmayr, R (2019): Interrater agreement and discrepancy when assessing problem behaviors, social‐emotional skills, and developmental status of kindergarten children. J. Clin. Psychol. 75(12), 2210-2232de
eldorado.secondarypublication.primaryidentifierhttps://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22840de

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