Do We Need Multiple Informants When Assessing Autistic Traits? The Degree of Report Bias on Offspring, Self, and Spouse Ratings

Autor/inn/en	Möricke, Esmé; Buitelaar, Jan K.; Rommelse, Nanda N. J.
Titel	Do We Need Multiple Informants When Assessing Autistic Traits? The Degree of Report Bias on Offspring, Self, and Spouse Ratings
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46 (2016) 1, S.164-175 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-015-2562-y
Schlagwörter	Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Spouses; Correlation; Interrater Reliability; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Statistical Analysis; Preschool Children; Parent Attitudes; Scores; Mothers; Fathers; Parent Child Relationship; Genetics; Interpersonal Communication; Interpersonal Competence; Questionnaires + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Ehepartner; Korrelation; Interrater-Reliabilität; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Statistische Analyse; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Elternverhalten; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Humangenetik; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Fragebogen
Abstract	This study focused on the degree of report bias in assessing autistic traits. Both parents of 124 preschoolers completed the Social Communication Questionnaire and the Autism-spectrum Quotient. Acceptable agreement existed between mother and father reports of children's mean scores of autistic traits, but interrater reliability for rank-order correlations was only fair. No evidence was found for report bias regarding parent-offspring autistic traits. However, adult autistic ratings were strongly biased: spouse-ratings were higher than self-ratings, correlations were only fair when both parents reported about the same person, and resemblance was higher for reports from the same person than for spouses' separate self-reports. It is advisable to involve multiple informants when assessing autistic traits, and to use procedural and/or statistical remedies to control for report bias. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01