Parent-Child Agreement on Parent-to-Child Maltreatment

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• 作者：Laura H.C.G. Compier-de Block ; Lenneke R.A. Alink…
• 关键词：Child maltreatment ; Parent ; child agreement ; Measurement
• 刊名：Journal of Family Violence
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：32
• 期：2
• 页码：207-217
• 全文大小：384KB
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Quality of Life Research; Clinical Psychology; Law and Psychology; Criminology and Criminal Justice, general; Psychotherapy and Counseling;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-2851
• 卷排序：32

文摘

Parent-child agreement on child maltreatment was examined in a multigenerational study. Questionnaires on perpetrated and experienced child maltreatment were completed by 138 parent-child pairs. Multi-level analyses were conducted to explore whether parents and children agreed about levels of parent-to-child maltreatment (convergence), and to examine whether parents and children reported equal levels of child maltreatment (absolute differences). Direct and moderating effects of age and gender were examined as potential factors explaining differences between parent and child report. The associations between parent- and child-reported maltreatment were significant for all subtypes, but the strength of the associations was low to moderate. Moreover, children reported more parent-to-child neglect than parents did. Older participants reported more experienced maltreatment than younger participants, without evidence for differences in actual exposure. These findings support the value of multi-informant assessment of child maltreatment to improve accuracy, but also reveal the divergent perspectives of parents and children on child maltreatment.