Measuring Anxiety in Children: The Importance of Separate Mother and Father Reports

BackgroundPrevious research suggests that it is important to use parental reports when assessing children’s anxiety, but it remains unclear to what extent there are differences between mothers’ and fathers’ scores and whether these potential differences have any repercussions for the psychometric properties of the scale being used.ObjectiveThis study was conducted to investigate parental differences on the Parent version of the Screen for Child …