Child maltreatment has been linked to a wide range of poor child outcomes. Although children's reports of parenting are essential within clinical contexts, such as child welfare investigations or forensic interviews, children's reports of parental behaviors are not widely used within research contexts. Delineating child reports of maltreatment and parenting in the context of research could enhance methods of assessment and inform clinical practice. Thus, the present research sought to examine the utility of children's reports of deficient parenting and maternal alcohol abuse in the prediction of childhood internalizing and disruptive behaviors. Participants were 350 children aged 4 to 9 and their mothers, who were enrolled in a 3-year longitudinal study examining parenting and children's social development. A multi-method, multisource approach to data collection was used. Children's internalizing and disruptive behaviors were assessed at two time points occurring approximately 12 months apart, and were based on mothers' reports and research assistant observations. Information regarding parenting and maternal alcohol abuse was obtained from children, mothers, and direct observational measures. Structural equation modeling was used to explore the effects of deficient parenting and maternal alcohol abuse on concurrent and prospective child behavior problems. Age was included as a potential moderator of the link between deficient parenting and child behavior. A single construct conceptualization of deficient parenting was not supported by the data and the influences of each aspect of deficient parenting were examined independently. Results were varied across informants and depending on the specific aspect of parenting being assessed, providing partial support for the hypotheses. Among younger children, child-reported care neglect significantly predicted later anxiety and was marginally associated with concurrent disruptive behaviors. Current maternal alcohol abuse was marginally associated with both concurrent disruptive and internalizing behavior. Among older children, the multi-source index of care neglect significantly predicted later disruptive behaviors, while the multi-source index of harsh discipline and child-reported supervisory neglect predicted concurrent disruptive behaviors. For both age groups, mothers' lifetime history of alcohol abuse significantly predicted concurrent and later disruptive behavior, and later internalizing behavior. Children's reported exposure to maternal alcohol abuse was significantly associated with concurrent disruptive behaviors. The link between harsh discipline and concurrent internalizing problems was marginally significant. Finally, supervisory neglect was associated with internalizing behaviors, but results varied depending on the measure of supervision used. Current findings provided additional support for the utility of distinguishing between aspects of deficient parenting and examining the unique influences of aspects of parenting on child behavior. Overall, findings offer support for the predictive validity of children's reports of parenting and maternal alcohol abuse, and emphasize the importance of assessing children's experiences of parenting separately from other informants. Findings highlight the complexity of the relation between parenting and child adjustment, and suggest that the nature of these relations maybe fluid across children's development.

The current study examined the role of self-reported and child-reported maternal lack of acceptance in increasing the likelihood of developing internalizing and externalizing symptoms among children with ADHD symptomatology. The effects of a social desirability bias on mother’s self-reports of rejection were controlled for. Mother-child agreement about parenting behaviors like warmth/affection, hostility/aggression and indifference/neglect was also investigated. In addition, variables with the potential to affect agreement (i.e., parents’ social desirability bias, child age, child sex) were examined. Participants included 120 boys and 90 girls, 6 to 11 years old (M = 8.25, SD = 1.18) with and without ADHD and their primary parent/guardian (N = 209). Parent and child participants completed self-report instruments separately. Results indicate that the relationship between mother-and-child-reported ADHD symptoms and internalizing symptoms is strongest when mothers exhibit low levels of rejection. Among the ADHD subsample, maternal lack of acceptance acts as a risk factor by strengthening the relationship between hyperactive/impulsive symptoms and externalizing symptoms. In addition, mothers and their children report significantly different levels of parenting behaviors. Child age and child sex were significant predictors of parent-child disagreement.

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Introduction : Les évaluations parentales et les évaluations auto-rapportées sur le statut psychologique des enfants ne concordent pas. Des caractéristiques propres aux enfants et parents prédiraient les différences. Objectifs : (1) identifier les accords mères-enfants et pères-enfants sur l’anxiété, la dépression et la détresse de l’enfant (2) évaluer la taille des différences entre les évaluations (3) explorer l’effet prédictif des caractéristiques sociodémographiques (âge de l’enfant, sexe de l’enfant, revenu parental) et des symptômes psychologiques sur les écarts entre les évaluations. Méthodologie : 62 triades enfant-mère-père ont complété des mesures d’anxiété, de dépression et de détresse pour l’enfant. Les parents ont aussi complété une mesure de symptômes psychologiques. Des coefficients de corrélation intraclasse, des tailles d’effets, des graphiques Bland-Altman et des régressions hiérarchiques ont été utilisés. Résultats : Les indices d’accord étaient faibles pour les évaluations mères-enfants et pères-enfants. Les parents avaient tendance à surestimer l’anxiété, la dépression et la détresse de leur enfant. Les tailles de différences étaient modérées. Les symptômes psychologiques des parents prédisaient les écarts entre les évaluations. Conclusion : Nos résultats supportent la méthode multi-informateur pour identifier la détresse chez les jeunes survivants. Des mesures d’ajustements pourraient être développées pour corriger l’effet de symptômes psychologiques élevés sur les évaluations parentales. / Introduction: Cancer care guidelines recommend to evaluate distress, but few studies target young childhood cancer survivors. Parents’ ratings and children’s self-report of anxiety, depression, and distress do not correspond. Children’s or parents’ characteristics could be associated with the gap between ratings. Objectives: (1) identify mother-child and father-child agreement on anxiety, depression and distress ratings (2) evaluate the size of the difference between ratings of parents and children (3) explore the predictive effects of sociodemographic characteristics (child age, child sex, parental income) and of parental psychological symptoms the gap between ratings. Methods: 62 young cancer survivors (<18 years old) and both their parents participated. Parents further completed a measure of psychological symptoms. Intraclass correlation coefficients and sizes of the differences were calculated. Bland-Altman plots and hierarchical regression were used. Results. Agreement ranged from poor to fair for mother-child and father-child ratings. Parents overestimated anxiety, depression, and distress. Moderated effect sizes were found between ratings. Parental psychological symptoms predicted the gap between parents’ and children’s ratings. Conclusion: Our results support a multi-informant strategy to identify distress in young survivors. Adjustment strategies could be developed to account for the effect of elevated parental psychological symptoms on parent’s ratings when they are the only source of available information on the child.