Abstract
Research consistently shows low to moderate agreement between parent and child reports of child mood, suggesting that parents are not always the best predictors of child emotional functioning. This study examines parental responsiveness and psychological control for improving prediction of early adolescent mood and emotional resilience beyond parent report of child emotional functioning. Participants were 268 early adolescents administered measures of depression symptoms, emotional resilience, and perceptions of parenting. Parents of participating youth completed measures of youth emotional functioning. Parental responsiveness and psychological control each emerged as family variables that may be of value for predicting child emotional functioning beyond parent reports. Specifically, responsiveness explained significant variance in child depression and resilience after accounting for parent reports, while parental psychological control increased prediction of child mood alone. Results generally suggest that parenting behaviours may be an important consideration when children and parents provide discrepant reports of child emotional well-being. Conceptual and clinical implications of these results are discussed.
Highlights
Incorporating reports of multiple informants who have varying perspectives is a recommended approach in the clinical assessment of children [1,2,3,4,5,6]
Given the pervasive nature of parent-child report discrepancies, the primary purpose of the present paper is to examine whether the consideration of parental responsiveness and psychological control improves ability to predict child mood and emotional resilience beyond parent reports of child emotional functioning
The central objective of this study was to examine how parental responsiveness and psychological control contribute to the prediction of child mood and emotional resilience beyond parent reports of these constructs
Summary
Incorporating reports of multiple informants who have varying perspectives is a recommended approach in the clinical assessment of children [1,2,3,4,5,6]. Clinicians are often placed in the difficult position of deciding how to weigh these disparate reports in a case formulation or intervention for a given client [13, 15]. It is the aim of the present paper to examine parenting behaviours for improving prediction of early adolescent mood and emotional resilience beyond parent report of child emotional functioning. Internal beliefs, feelings, and symptoms are comparatively less likely to be directly observed by a clinician, and decisions
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