A COMPANION OF CHILD AND PARENT RATINGS OF DEPRESSION FOR NORMAL AND CLINICALLY REFERRED CHILDREN
- 1 July 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Vol. 28 (4) , 613-624
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1987.tb00227.x
Abstract
Child and parent ratings of 14 items of the Children''s Depression Rating Scale.sbd.Revised are compared for a non-clinical and clinical sample. Four hypotheses are tested: (1) children and parents differ in rating depressive symptoms; (2) children rate depressions less severely than parents; (3) parents report greater severity for behavioral and children for ideational symptoms; and (4) the relationship between child and parent ratings does not differ between samples. The first hypothesis was supported in the non-clinical sample and the second in the clinical sample. Support for the third hypothesis was equivocal. Finally, the fourth hypothesis was rejected. Implications of these results for the diagnosis of depression in childhood are discussed.Keywords
This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
- PARENT-CHILD AGREEMENT ON CHILD PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS ASSESSED VIA STRUCTURED INTERVIEWJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1986
- Informant Variance: The Issue of Parent-Child DisagreementJournal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1985
- The Assessment of Affective Disorders in Children and Adolescents by Semistructured InterviewArchives of General Psychiatry, 1985
- Child and parent evaluations of depression and aggression in psychiatric inpatient childrenJournal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1983
- Assessment of Childhood Depression: Correspondence of Child and Parent RatingsJournal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1983
- SELF‐REPORT AND INTERVIEW MEASURES OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENT DEPRESSIONJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1982
- Development of a structured psychiatric interview for children: Agreement between child and parent on individual symptomsJournal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1982
- Depression in children: Parent, teacher, and child perspectivesJournal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1980
- Reliability of Psychiatric DiagnosisArchives of General Psychiatry, 1977
- A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal ScalesEducational and Psychological Measurement, 1960