title: Three-year course of behavioral/emotional problems in a national sample of 4- to 16-year-olds: I. Agreement among informants.
abstract: Quantitative and categorical indices of psychopathology are reported for a nationally representative longitudinal sample assessed via eight empirically derived cross-informants syndromes, internalizing, externalizing, and total problems. Results showed medium to large stabilities for parents' ratings during a 3-year interval on all comparable scales. Predictive correlations between time 1 parents' ratings and time 2 teacher and self-ratings were weaker than parent-to-parent correlations. Classification of children as deviant showed weaker predictive relations than did quantitative scores. Odds ratios showed that children classified as deviant by parents' time 1 ratings were much more likely to be deviant at time 2 on corresponding parent, teacher, and self-ratings than were children initially classified as nondeviant.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington 05401.
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: McConaughy
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stanger
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Achenbach
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012647:Self-Assessment; D013663:Teaching