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  • Title: Parents' judgements about young children's problems: why mothers and fathers might disagree yet still predict later outcomes.
    Author: Hay DF, Pawlby S, Sharp D, Schmücker G, Mills A, Allen H, Kumar R.
    Journal: J Child Psychol Psychiatry; 1999 Nov; 40(8):1249-58. PubMed ID: 10604403.
    Abstract:
    Correlates of parents' ratings of behavioural problems were explored in a sample of 93 British families, in which mothers and fathers rated their children at the time of the fourth birthday on the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist. As in other samples, there was moderate convergence in mothers' and fathers' total problem scores, but also signs that they were reporting different sorts of problems linked to different influences. The father's rating was primarily associated with the child's cognitive ability. The mother's rating was primarily affected by her own mental state and view of her marriage. The father's but not the mother's rating provided unique information that predicted teachers' reports of the children's problems 7 years later. In general, parents' ratings of preschool children's problems reflect particular informants' perspectives on family life.
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