Mothers and Children as Informants of Bullying Victimization: Results from an Epidemiological Cohort of Children

Autor/inn/en	Shakoor, Sania; Jaffee, Sara R.; Andreou, Penelope; Bowes, Lucy; Ambler, Antony P.; Caspi, Avshalom; Moffitt, Terrie E.; Arseneault, Louise
Titel	Mothers and Children as Informants of Bullying Victimization: Results from an Epidemiological Cohort of Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 39 (2011) 3, S.379-387 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-0627
DOI	10.1007/s10802-010-9463-5
Schlagwörter	Bullying; Mothers; Emotional Disturbances; Predictive Validity; Interrater Reliability; Genetics; Etiology; Environmental Influences; Victims of Crime; Self Disclosure (Individuals); Mental Health; Children; Comparative Analysis; Twins; Peer Relationship; Power Structure; Data Collection; Longitudinal Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mobbing; Mother; Mutter; Gefühlsstörung; Interrater-Reliabilität; Humangenetik; Ätiologie; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Psychohygiene; Child; Kind; Kinder; Twin; Zwilling; Peer-Beziehungen; Data capture; Datensammlung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	Stressful events early in life can affect children's mental health problems. Collecting valid and reliable information about children's bad experiences is important for research and clinical purposes. This study aimed to (1) investigate whether mothers and children provide valid reports of bullying victimization, (2) examine the inter-rater reliability between the two informants, (3) test the predictive validity of their reports with children's emotional and behavioral problems and (4) compare the genetic and environmental etiology of bullying victimization as reported by mothers and children. We assessed bullying victimization in the Environmental-Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, a nationally-representative sample of 1,116 families with twins. We collected reports from mothers and children during private interviews, including detailed narratives. Findings showed that we can rely on mothers and children as informants of bullying victimization: both informants provided information which adhered to the definition of bullying as involving repeated hurtful actions between peers in the presence of a power imbalance. Although mothers and children modestly agreed with each other about who was bullied during primary and secondary school, reports of bullying victimization from both informants were similarly associated with children's emotional and behavioral problems and provided similar estimates of genetic and environmental influences. Findings from this study suggest that collecting information from multiple informants is ideal to capture all instances of bullying victimization. However, in the absence of child self-reports, mothers can be considered as a viable alternative, and vice versa. (As Provided).
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