Perspective matters: Differences between child- and caregiver-reports of emotion regulation mediating the relationship between cumulative childhood trauma and mental health problems in foster children.

CONCLUSIONS: Adaptive and maladaptive ER distinctively mediate the relationship between cumulative childhood trauma and mental health problems in children. Perspective matters when examining these variables and child- and caregiver-reports are not interchangeable. Practitioners and researchers should be aware of inherent limitations when using data from distinct perspectives. Informant discrepancies can carry meaning and should not be ignored, but examined and interpreted instead. PMID: 32559554 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32559554?dopt=Abstract

Source: Child Abuse and Neglect - June 15, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Haselgruber A, Sölva K, Lueger-Schuster B Tags: Child Abuse Negl Source Type: research