Comparison of Mothers', Fathers', and Teachers' Reports on Problem Behavior in 5- to 6-Year-Old Children

Behavioral problems in children with motor and intellectual disabilities: Prevalence and associations with maladaptive personality and marital relationship

“…Because this study is the first to use the DBC in children with MID, analyses regarding prevalence rates were exploratory. Based on the literature on prevalence rates in representative community samples (Grietens et al, 2004), we hypothesized that parents would report more behavioral problems than daily caretakers. Second, we aimed to investigate the associations of behavioral problems with sex and age.…”

“…Communitybased studies have revealed that parents report higher prevalence rates of behavioral problems than teachers (e.g., Grietens et al, 2004). However, Sigurdardottir et al (2010) found that teachers reported higher prevalence rate of behavior problems for children with Cerebral Palsy.…”

“…In this study, we extended past research by including daily caretakers, in addition to parents, as informants. Several authors have recommended a multiple informant approach because different informants add different but legitimate and unique information about child functioning (Bartels et al, 2003;Grietens et al, 2004). Informants differ not only in the way they interpret behavior but also in the type of interactions they have with children.…”

“…Informants differ not only in the way they interpret behavior but also in the type of interactions they have with children. An important advantage of the inclusion of daily caretakers is that they are familiar with a broader range of children and they have greater expertise regarding normal and abnormal child development than parents (Grietens et al, 2004;Saudino, Ronald, & Plomin, 2005). Furthermore, daily caretakers are valuable informants because some behavioral problems are primarily exhibited in interactions with other children and daily caretakers are more likely to see these interactions.…”

The influence of maternal psychopathology on ratings of child psychiatric symptoms: an SEM analysis on cross-informant agreement

“…mother, father, therapist, kindergarten teacher, or foster parent, has become the standard of practice [3,55]. However, research has consistently shown that the agreement between ratings of child behaviour by different informants is only low to moderate [14,30,43,50,62,64,72].…”