This research studies parent-child agreement on parenting behaviors and mediators of
agreement for 134 families. Results of the multitrait-multimethod analyses reveal a low …

Recent research on parental agreement on child-rearing values has found it to be positively
related to effective parenting. The exact nature of the relation, however, is not clear. Are they …

Parents and children often report different perspectives about parents' behaviors. Such lack
of congruence is important because it may reflect problems in their relationship and may be …

This study examined whether characteristics of behavioral items reported by parent and
child are related to parent–child agreement. Data were collected from 20 judges rating 59 …

Relational data from a representative sample of high school students matched with data
from their parents (N= 3,988) are used to examine patterns of dyadic agreement and …

In previous research, an index of parental agreement regarding child-rearing orientations
was found to relate to the quality of children's psychological functioning from 3 to 7 years of …

Child informants routinely participate in forensic and social service investigations and are
often a critical source of information. However, across research domains high levels of …

An objective index of degree of parental agreement was generated by comparing the
independent responses of 83 parental dyads to a set of Q-sort items reflecting child-rearing …

Examined whether parents' symptoms and qualitative and quantitative aspects of parent–
child relationships make unique contributions to mothers' and fathers' reports of, and mother …

Agreement among reporters on features of family life, whether family members or outside
observers, is considered to be low. This study, which involved a national sample of 720 …