More documents from Kroes, Gert; Veerman, Jan W.; Bruyn, Eric E. J. de
More documents from European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Export to your Reference Manger
Please Copy & Paste
Bibtex-Export
Endnote-Export
The role of acquaintanceship in the perception of child behaviour problems
[journal article]
Kroes, Gert; Veerman, Jan W.; Bruyn, Eric E. J. de
Download full text
(159 KByte)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-203032
Further Details
| Abstract | The role of acquaintanceship with the child on reports of child behaviour by different informants was examined within the framework of a general theory of personality judgment. Mothers of referred children and group-care workers rated videotaped behaviour samples of a well known and an unknown child in the clinic. Independent observers also rated the videotapes. In line with the acquaintanceship hypothesis, mothers were found to perceive more behaviour problems than independent observers when rating well known children but not unknown children. Contrary to the acquaintanceship hypothesis, however, the group-care workers in our study reported more behaviour problems than the other informants regardless of their acquaintance with the children. The clinical and methodological implications of these findings are discussed. |
| Classification | Personality Psychology; Social Psychology |
| Free Keywords | Informant bias; Child assessment; Acquaintanceship effect |
| Document language | English |
| Publication Year | 2009 |
| Page/Pages | p. 371-377 |
| Journal | European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 19 (2009) 4 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-009-0061-4 |
| Status | Postprint; reviewed |
| Licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) |
