Discrepancies between parent and adolescent beliefs about daily life topics and performance on an emotion recognition task

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 971-982

  De Los Reyes, Andres ^a   Lerner, Matthew D ^b   Thomas, Sarah A ^a   Daruwala, Samantha ^a   Goepel, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Informant disagreement; Informant discrepancies; Multiple informants; Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test; To(may)to To(mah)to Interview

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EMOTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMOTIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880297158     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-013-9733-0     Document Type: Article

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