Parent reports of child temperament, especially those of mothers', are frequently used in research and clinical practice, but there are concerns that maternal characteristics, including a history of psychopathology, might bias reports on these measures. However, whether maternal reports of youth temperament show structural differences based on mothers' psychiatric history is unclear. We therefore conducted tests of measurement invariance to examine whether maternal psychopathology was associated with structural aspects of child temperament as a means of evaluating potential biases related to mothers' mental disorder history. From 2 community-based studies of child temperament, 935 mothers completed the Child Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ) and semistructured diagnostic interviews that assessed their own lifetime history of depressive symptoms, anxiety, and substance use disorders. Mothers also completed a measure of depressive symptoms concurrent to their completion of the CBQ. We found little evidence that mothers' current depressive symptoms or history of depressive symptoms, anxiety, or substance use disorders were associated with the structure of their reports of child temperament. Thus, there is little empirical support for systematic biases in reports of youth temperament as indexed by psychometric modeling. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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评估儿童气质报告中的母亲精神病理学偏差：测量不变性的调查。


家长关于儿童气质的报告，尤其是母亲的儿童气质报告，经常用于研究和临床实践，但有人担心母亲的特征，包括精神病理学史，可能会对这些措施的报告产生偏见。然而，母亲对青少年气质的报告是否显示出基于母亲精神病史的结构差异尚不清楚。因此，我们进行了测量不变性测试，以检查母亲精神病理学是否与儿童气质的结构方面相关，作为评估与母亲精神障碍史相关的潜在偏差的一种手段。根据两项基于社区的儿童气质研究，935 名母亲完成了儿童行为问卷 (CBQ) 和半结构化诊断访谈，评估了她们一生中抑郁症状、焦虑和物质使用障碍的病史。母亲们在完成 CBQ 的同时还完成了抑郁症状的测量。我们发现几乎没有证据表明母亲当前的抑郁症状或抑郁症状、焦虑或物质使用障碍的历史与她们对孩子气质的报告的结构有关。因此，在以心理测量模型为索引的青少年气质报告中，几乎没有实证支持系统性偏差。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。