Citation

Ladd GW, Kochenderfer-Ladd B. Psychol. Assess. 2002; 14(1): 74-96.

Affiliation

Department of Family and Human Development, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 872502, Tempe, Arizona 85287-2502, USA. Gary.Ladd@asu.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11911051

Abstract

Two studies were conducted to investigate cross-informant measures of children's peer victimization. In Study 1, self- and peer reports of victimization were compared for 197 children from Kindergarten (M age = 5.73) to Grade 4. Before Grade 2, peer reports were less reliable than self-reports and were poor estimators of relational adjustment. In Study 2, single- versus multiple-informant (self, peer, teacher, parent) victimization measures were compared for 392 children across grades 2 (M age = 8.73) to 4. Results indicated that (a) data from the four informants were reliable and increasingly concordant over time, (b) no single-informant measure proved to be the best predictor of relational adjustment, and (c) a multi-informant composite measure yielded better estimates of relational adjustment than any single-informant measure.

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