Convergent Validity of and Bias in Maternal Reports of Child Emotion

Autor/inn/en	Durbin, C. Emily; Wilson, Sylia
Titel	Convergent Validity of and Bias in Maternal Reports of Child Emotion
Quelle	In: Psychological Assessment, 24 (2012) 3, S.647-660 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1040-3590
DOI	10.1037/a0026607
Schlagwörter	Validity; Personality Traits; Affective Behavior; Video Technology; Mothers; Emotional Development; Young Children; Parent Attitudes; Rating Scales; Mental Health; Mental Disorders; Clinical Diagnosis; Emotional Response; Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire; Beck Anxiety Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gültigkeit; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Mother; Mutter; Gefühlsbildung; Frühe Kindheit; Elternverhalten; Rating-Skala; Psychohygiene; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Emotionales Verhalten
Abstract	This study examined the convergent validity of maternal reports of child emotion in a sample of 190 children between the ages of 3 and 6. Children completed a battery of 10 emotion-eliciting laboratory tasks; their mothers and untrained naive observers rated child emotions (happiness, surprise, fear, sadness, and anger) following each task, and trained coders rated videotapes of each task for the same emotions. Consistent with studies using other designs, maternal reports demonstrated weak to moderate convergence with the other rating methods. Extending prior research, a number of maternal characteristics (particularly lifetime psychiatric diagnoses and personality traits) were associated with their reports of child emotions in the lab, above and beyond the effects of objective coding and observer reports of child emotions. For some emotions, mothers' mental health and dispositional variables were more strongly related to their reports of the child's emotions than were objective indices of the child's observable emotional behavior. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10