Development and Initial Validation of the Peer-Report Measure of Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior

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• 作者：Bahr Weiss ; Vicki Harris and Thomas Catron
• 关键词：peer ; report ; internalizing child psychopathology ; externalizing child psychopathology ; assessment
• 刊名：Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
• 出版年：2002
• 出版时间：2002
• 年：2002
• 卷：30
• 期：3
• 页码：285-294
• 全文大小：60 KB
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Child and School Psychology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-2835

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This study describes the development and initial validation of the Peer-report Measure of Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior (PMIEB), a peer-nomination inventory that assesses internalizing (anxiety, depression, somatic complaints) and externalizing (aggression, delinquency, hyperactivity/attentional problems) psychopathology in school-aged children. Peer nomination inventories such as the PMIEB can provide an important perspective on children's behavioral and emotional functioning, for purposes ranging from descriptive psychopathology to outcome assessments of school-based treatment programs. However, although there currently are peer-nomination inventories for several specific domains of behavioral and emotional problems, the PMIEB represents the first broadband peer-nomination assessment instrument that can efficiently provide peer-report information across a wide range of child emotional and behavioral problems. Results of this study provide support for the reliability and validity of both broadband PMIEB subscales, as well as 5 of the 6 narrowband PMIEB subscales.