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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Aug 29.
Published in final edited form as: Evid Based Pract Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2020 Feb 21;5(1):67–82. doi: 10.1080/23794925.2020.1727795

Table 4.

Agreement between mother and father categorical definitions of psychopathology on the Child Behavior Checklist.

Neither
Mother Only
Father Only
Both
N % N  % N  % N % χ2 phi

Affect Problems 17 25.0 17 25.0 2  2.9 32 47.1 16.43* .49*
Anxiety 19 27.9 16 23.5 7 10.3 26 38.2  7.87* .34*
Somatic Problems 44 64.7 10 14.7 4  5.9 10 14.7 14.99* .47*
ADHD 27 39.7 12 17.6 3  4.4 26 38.2 23.39* .59*
Oppositional Defiant 41 60.3  4  5.9 4  5.9 19 27.9 36.96* .74*
Conduct Problems 44 64.7  5  7.4 3  4.4 16 23.5 35.13* .72*

Scales are DSM-5 Subscales on the Child Behavior Checklist. Neither = neither mother nor father ratings exceeded cutoff; Mother Only = exceeded cutoff for mother but not father ratings; Father Only = exceeded cutoffs for father but not mother ratings; Both = exceeded cutoffs for mother and father ratings.

*

= p < .05.