Cross-informant agreement between caregivers and teachers for prosocial behavior across child welfare settings.

ABSTRACT: Healthy social functioning has been a growing focus for understanding children's positive development and well-being. Despite the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of behavior rating scales, there has been a rising issue of concern in both practice and research applications regarding rating scales and its low cross-informant agreement. The present study aimed to analyze the extent to which caregivers and teachers agree about children's prosocial behaviors, identify whether there were differences in the degree of agreement across child welfare settings, and ultimately offer recommendations for assessing behavior for children involved with child welfare services. To do so, the reports of 1,224 children, caregivers, and teachers from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NS

SUBMITTER: Lee JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10836151 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature