Elaborato laboratorio Inglese, docente Gesuale, articolo consigliato:Caregiver adolescent dyadic disagreement and problem behaviors of adolescents in the child welfare system

the LTFC sample. The study used dyadic analysis, the Pearson’s “r” and the ICC to

investigate the degree of agreement.

5) The results show an increase of adolescent’s externalizing problems, in OOH care,

based on self-report questionnaries. Both adolescents’ and caregivers’ reports about

internalizing problems at Wave I are associated to the incidence of externalizing

problems at Wave IV. The agreement is inversely associated with this incidence; so, if

caregivers have a negative vision of adolescent’s problems, the adolescents, in

response, are going to internalize this opinion in the way that the parents may

negatively influence the externalizing behaviours over time.

6) The conclusion highlights the importance of the disagreement between caregivers

and adolescent about the youth’s internalizing problems to predict the externaling

behavior across time.