This paper presents the research methodology, data analysis, and results from a project that addressed the knowledge gap on concordance in social victimization reporting, by investigating agreement in child and parent reports in the population-based Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study.
The purpose of the research presented here was to investigate child-parent concordance in reporting social victimization experiences and whether concordance was associated with child behavioral symptoms. This was an observational study with data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study. The analytic sample was 11,235 nine- or 10-year-old children from the United States. Exposure variables were demographic and protective factors (child perceptions of parental relationships, school protective factors, neighborhood safety). The outcome was parent-child concordance on six domains of child social victimization: conventional crime, peer victimization, witnessing violence, internet victimization, school victimization, and gun violence. Child behavior symptoms were measured using the Child Behavior Checklist. Exposure to social victimization was low (nine percent of the sample). Concordance ranged from 18 percent to 50 percent. The highest levels of concordance were observed for conventional crime (k = 0.48, P < .001) and witnessing violence (k = 0.48, P < .001). Parents’ perceptions of greater neighborhood safety was associated with lower odds of concordant conventional crime (odds ratio [OR] = 0.92, 95 percent confidence interval [CI] 0.86–0.99) and witnessing violence (OR = 0.92, 95 percent CI0.84–0.99). Concordance was associated with more internalizing/externalizing behaviors. Parents under-report social victimization in relation to children. Concordance in reporting social victimization may be an indicator of the severity of experiences, underscoring the need to consider child reports when screening for adversity. (Published Abstract Provided)
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