Applying Depression-Distortion Hypotheses to the Assessment of Peer Victimization in Adolescents

Reyes, Andres De Los; Prinstein, Mitchell J.

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“…Another nine items were latter added, resulting in a 14 item-instrument referred to by De Los Reyes and Prinstein (2004), all presented in one bully and one victim form. This version of the instrument is the focus of the current work and assess direct and indirect (i.e., The bully version of the instrument evaluates the practice of aggressive behavior towards peers (i.e., Bully version), with participants rating how often they engaged in an aggressive or prosocial behavior toward others in the past year using a 5-point rating scale from 1 (never) to 5 (a few times a week).…”

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Measures of aggression and victimization in portuguese adolescents: Cross-cultural validation of the Revised Peer Experience Questionnaire.

Queirós

Vagos

2016

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The goal of this research was to develop and psychometrically evaluate the Portuguese version of the Revised Peer Experience Questionnaire, which assesses aggression, victimization and prosocial behavior. Victimization and aggression among adolescents in school settings is a growing problem, not yet fully understood or properly evaluated, particularly in Portugal. A sample of 1320 adolescents was recruited (52.7% female), with ages varying from 10 to 18 years old, attending middle and high school. Confirmatory factor analysis confirms the measurement model of the instrument's bully and victim versions, as evaluating overt, relational and reputational aggression/ victimization and providing/ receiving prosocial behavior, respectively. This measurement model was invariant across schooling and gender, showed adequate internal consistency indicators, and presented evidence for construct validity in relation to other variables. Descriptive analyses indicate that boys are more aggressive in overt and relational forms and victimized through overt aggression, whereas girls are more aggressive and victimized relationally. More than any form of aggression or victimization, boys and girls revealed higher values for engaging in and receiving prosocial behavior. These results suggest that this instrument is a reliable, valid, and structurally sound measure of aggression, victimization and prosocial behavior in this Portuguese school-based community sample. Hence, its use may assist researchers gain a better understanding of adolescent aggression and victimization.

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“…We expect to find that the same four factor structure will represent a good fit for the data of the bully and the victim version of the instrument separately (De Los Reyes & Prinstein, 2004). Fruthermore, we intended to ascertain if this measurment models would be invariant across diverse schoolbased age groups.…”

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Measures of aggression and victimization in portuguese adolescents: Cross-cultural validation of the Revised Peer Experience Questionnaire.

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Vagos

2016

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“…Conversely, recent theoretical work conceptualizes discrepancies as a function of differing informant perspectives (De Los Reyes & Kazdin, 2005;Kraemer et al, 2003). Ideally, testing whether depressive symptoms are related to discrepancies should involve examining the characteristic from both informants' perspectives.Second, recent work indicates that youths' mood symptoms are associated with discrepancies between self-rated psychosocial functioning and the ratings of other informants (De Los Reyes & Prinstein, 2004;Youngstrom, Findling, & Calabrese, 2004). Thus, perhaps the mechanisms suggested to account for the relation between depressive symptoms and mothers' ratings might be implicated in youths' ratings as well.…”

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Whose depression relates to discrepancies? Testing relations between informant characteristics and informant discrepancies from both informants' perspectives.

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This study examined whether mothers' and children's depressive symptoms were each uniquely related to mother-child rating discrepancies on a multidimensional dyadic construct: domains associated with parental monitoring (i.e., Child Disclosure, Parental Knowledge, and Parental Solicitation). Participants included a community sample of 335 mother/female-caregiver and child dyads (182 girls, 153 boys; 9−16 years old). Children's depressive symptoms were consistently related to each of the three domains of mother-child discrepancies. Mothers' depressive symptoms were related to perceived discrepancies in two domains (Child Disclosure and Parental Knowledge). Furthermore, these relations could not be accounted for by other informant characteristics (maternal stress, child age, child gender, child ethnicity). Findings provide important empirical support for theory suggesting that both informants' perspectives meaningfully contribute to their discrepancies in perceived behavior. Consideration of both informants' perspectives leads to valuable information as to whether any particular characteristic is an important correlate of discrepancies. Keywords attribution bias context; correspondence; depression-distortion; disagreement; informant discrepanciesIn the clinical sciences, the absence of definitive measures of constructs makes it critical to gather information on a participant's psychosocial dysfunction from the perspectives of multiple informants (e.g., self, significant other, clinician, laboratory observer, biological indices). However, one of the most consistent yet poorly understood phenomena is that multiple informants provide inconsistent ratings of the same participant's psychosocial dysfunction (e.g., Achenbach, 2006;De Los Reyes & Kazdin, 2005). Discrepancies are critical for numerous reasons. First, they are present across measurement methods (De Los Reyes & Kazdin, 2005) and areas of psychological science (e.g., Barrett, 2006;Clancy, McGrath, & Oddson, 2005;Kenny, Albright, Malloy, & Kashy, 1994;Saudino, Wertz, Gagne, & Chawla, 2004). Second, discrepancies pose significant interpretive problems for researchers studying NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript the prevalence of dysfunction, risk factors, types of dysfunction to target for intervention, and the identification of evidence-based interventions (De Los Reyes & Kazdin, 2005, 2008. Third, discrepant perceptions between informants are related to how they interact with one another and may predict and/or negatively affect psychosocial and physiological functioning (e.g., Beck, Hartos, & Simons-Morton, 2006;Ferdinand, van der Ende, & Verhulst, 2004;Kiecolt-Glaser et al., 2005). Thus, the implications of discrepancies highlight the importance of understanding why they exist.Research on mechanisms accounting for discrepancies currently is at a preliminary stage (De Los Reyes & Kazdin, 2005). In fact, the clinical discrepancies literature has paid most attention to examining the relation between discrepancies a...

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“…First, they commonly occur across measurement methods (De Los Reyes and Kazdin 2005) and areas of the clinical sciences (e.g., Achenbach et al 1987;Clancy et al 2005;De Los Reyes and Prinstein 2004), suggesting that the phenomenon is of general concern to researchers interested in studying children's behavior. Further, prior work suggests that differences in the magnitudes of informant discrepancies are dependent upon the problem type (e.g., internalizing versus externalizing concerns) as well as the informant pair (e.g., parent-child, mother-father, parent-teacher) (Achenbach 2006).…”

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The Relations among Measurements of Informant Discrepancies within a Multisite Trial of Treatments for Childhood Social Phobia

Reyes

Alfano

Beidel

2009

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Discrepancies between informants' reports of children's behavior are robustly observed in clinical child research and have important implications for interpreting the outcomes of controlled treatment trials. However, little is known about the basic psychometric properties of these discrepancies. This study examined the relation between parent-child reporting discrepancies on measures of child social phobia symptoms, administered before and after treatment for social phobia. Participants included a clinic sample of 81 children (7-16 years old [M=11.75, SD=2.57]; 39 girls, 42 boys) and their parents receiving treatment as part of a multisite controlled trial. Pretreatment parent-child reporting discrepancies predicted parent-child discrepancies at posttreatment, and these relations were not better accounted for by the severity of the child's pretreatment primary diagnosis. Further, treatment responder status moderated this relation: Significant relations were identified for treatment non-responders and not for treatment responders. Overall, findings suggest that informant discrepancies can be reliably employed to measure individual differences over the course of controlled treatment trials. These data provide additional empirical support for recent work suggesting that informant discrepancies can meaningfully inform understanding of treatment response as well as variability in treatment outcomes.

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Applying Depression-Distortion Hypotheses to the Assessment of Peer Victimization in Adolescents

Cited by 171 publications

References 76 publications

Measures of aggression and victimization in portuguese adolescents: Cross-cultural validation of the Revised Peer Experience Questionnaire.

Measures of aggression and victimization in portuguese adolescents: Cross-cultural validation of the Revised Peer Experience Questionnaire.

Whose depression relates to discrepancies? Testing relations between informant characteristics and informant discrepancies from both informants' perspectives.

The Relations among Measurements of Informant Discrepancies within a Multisite Trial of Treatments for Childhood Social Phobia

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