Assessment of child and adolescent psychopathology: informant concordance and construct validity.

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.IIACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.IIITABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.IVLIST OF TABLES --- p.VLIST OF APPENDICES --- p.VIIChapter CHAPTER I - --- INTRODUCTIONThe phenomenon of informant discrepancy on child and adolescent psychopathology --- p.8Variables affecting the agreement of informants in rating child and adolescent psychopathology --- p.11Who is the reliable and valid informant? --- p.25Focuses of the present study --- p.30Chapter CHAPTER II - --- METHODSubjects --- p.33Instruments --- p.34Procedure --- p.38Statistical analyses --- p.38Chapter CHAPTER III - --- RESULTS"Internal Consistency of the CBCL, YSR, TRF syndrome scales and interrelation among syndromes scales" --- p.40Informant 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.61Predictive ability of ratings from different informants on the external correlates of psychopathology --- p.64Chapter CHAPTER IV - --- DISCUSSIONInformant 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.72Association 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.77REFERENCESAPPENDICE