Assessing the influence of maternal depression on the validity of the child behavior checklist
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
- Vol. 14 (1) , 123-133
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00917228
Abstract
The relative effects of maternal depression, child gender, and child psychiatric status on mothers' ratings of their children were assessed in a study of the validity of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). Both maternal depression and gender were found to be significantly associated with mothers' ratings of their children on the CBCL. Nevertheless, mothers' ratings continued to differentiate groups of children with and without psychiatric problems even after the variance accounted for by maternal depression and child gender was removed. These findings support the criterion validity of the CBCL, and point also to the importance of assessing parents as part of the clinical evaluation of children.Keywords
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