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- Title
Mother, Father, and Teacher Agreement on Victimization and Bullying in Children With Psychiatric Disorders.
- Authors
Dickerson Mayes, Susan; Calhoun, Susan L.; Siddiqui, Farhat; Baweja, Raman; Waschbusch, Daniel A.; Mattison, Richard E.; Babinski, Dara E.; L Calhoun, Susan; A Waschbusch, Daniel; E Mattison, Richard; E Babinski, Dara
- Abstract
Bullying is a significant international problem, and parent-teacher agreement on identifying perpetrators and victims is poor in general population studies. The goal of our study is to assess informant discrepancies in children with mental health disorders. Parents and teachers completed the Pediatric Behavior Scale as part of a diagnostic evaluation for 1,723 children (ages 2-16 years) referred to a psychiatry clinic over the past 10 years. Mother and father bullying and victimization ratings on the Pediatric Behavior Scale were similar, but parent-teacher agreement was poor. Half of parents considered their child a victim, twice the percentage for teachers. Parents were 1.2 times more likely than teachers to perceive their child as a bully. Most parents reported their child was a victim or bully, whereas most teachers reported the children were neither. For both parents and teachers, victim and bully percentages for our psychiatric sample were twice as high as in general population studies. Clinicians should obtain information from multiple informants and consider that teacher report is likely to be lower than parent report.
- Subjects
BEHAVIOR disorders in children; MENTAL illness; BULLYING; COLLEGE teachers; PARENTS; PSYCHOLOGY of crime victims; AFFINITY groups; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Violence & Victims, 2017, Vol 32, Issue 3, p466
- ISSN
0886-6708
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-16-00025