by Tam Miu Ping, Judy. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-48). / Abstract and questionnaire also in Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.iv / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.v / Chapter CHAPTER I - --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / The Social Information-processing model --- p.1 / "Processing styles of reactive aggressive children, proactive aggressive children, and depressed children" --- p.3 / Purpose of the present research --- p.11 / Chapter CHAPTER II - --- METHODS --- p.13 / Subjects --- p.13 / Measures --- p.13 / Procedures --- p.15 / Chapter CHAPTER III - --- RESULTS --- p.16 / Internal consistency of independent variables --- p.16 / Correlation between independent variables and dependent variables --- p.18 / Multiple regression --- p.22 / Structural equation model --- p.26 / Chapter CHAPTER IV - --- DISCUSSION --- p.36 / Prediction of internalizing disorder tendency by social information- processing factors --- p.36 / Prediction of reactive aggression by social information-processing factors --- p.37 / Prediction of proactive aggression by social information-processing factors --- p.38 / Cognitive distortion --- p.39 / "Differentiation of internalizing disorder, reactive aggression, and proactive aggression" --- p.39 / "Implication to treatment of children with internalizing disorder, reactive aggression, and proactive aggression" --- p.40 / Cross validation of the structural model --- p.42 / Construct validity of the measures of independent variables --- p.42 / Limitations of the present research and future directions --- p.42 / REFERENCES --- p.45 / APPENDICES --- p.49 / Questionnaire --- p.49 / Correlation among variables --- p.66

by Sonya Y.W. Law. / Includes Chinese and English questionnaires. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-89). / ABSTRACT --- p.II / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.III / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.IV / LIST OF TABLES --- p.V / LIST OF APPENDICES --- p.VII / Chapter CHAPTER I - --- INTRODUCTION / The phenomenon of informant discrepancy on child and adolescent psychopathology --- p.8 / Variables affecting the agreement of informants in rating child and adolescent psychopathology --- p.11 / Who is the reliable and valid informant? --- p.25 / Focuses of the present study --- p.30 / Chapter CHAPTER II - --- METHOD / Subjects --- p.33 / Instruments --- p.34 / Procedure --- p.38 / Statistical analyses --- p.38 / Chapter CHAPTER III - --- RESULTS / "Internal Consistency of the CBCL, YSR, TRF syndrome scales and interrelation among syndromes scales" --- p.40 / Informant concordance - on the severity of reported symptoms --- p.46 / "correlation between parent's, teacher's, and child's rating" --- p.53 / "Association between parent-, teacher-, child-rated internalizing and externalizing problems and the external correlates of psychopathology" --- p.61 / Predictive ability of ratings from different informants on the external correlates of psychopathology --- p.64 / Chapter CHAPTER IV - --- DISCUSSION / Informant agreement on the severity of symptoms --- p.68 / "Correlation between ratings of different informants in relation to adolescent's sex, age, clinical status, and type of psychopathology" --- p.72 / Association between ratings from different informants and the external correlates of psychopathology --- p.75 / "Predictive ability of parent's, teacher's and adolescent's rating on the external correlates of psychopathology" --- p.77 / REFERENCES / APPENDICES