Stability and change in retrospective reports of childhood experiences over a 5-year period: Findings from the Davis Longitudinal Study.

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 715-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loriena A. Yancura ◽  
Carolyn M. Aldwin
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Retrospective Reports

scholarly journals Convergent and Discriminant Validity of Retrospective Assessments of the Quality of Childhood Parenting: Prospective Evidence From Infancy to Age 26 Years

2021 ◽  
pp. 095679762097577
Author(s):  
Marissa D. Nivison ◽  
Deborah Lowe Vandell ◽  
Cathryn Booth-LaForce ◽  
Glenn I. Roisman
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Emotional Availability ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Parent Reports ◽  
Parenting Quality ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Retrospective Reports ◽  
Childhood Parenting ◽  
Family Closeness

Retrospective self-report assessments of adults’ childhood experiences with their parents are widely employed in psychological science, but such assessments are rarely validated against actual parenting experiences measured during childhood. Here, we leveraged prospectively acquired data characterizing mother–child and father–child relationship quality using observations, parent reports, and child reports covering infancy through adolescence. At age 26 years, approximately 800 participants completed a retrospective measure of maternal and paternal emotional availability during childhood. Retrospective reports of childhood emotional availability demonstrated weak convergence with composites reflecting prospectively acquired observations ( R2s = .01–.05) and parent reports ( R2s = .02–.05) of parenting quality. Retrospective parental availability was more strongly associated with prospective assessments of child-reported parenting quality ( R2s = .24–.25). However, potential sources of bias (i.e., depressive symptoms and family closeness and cohesiveness at age 26 years) accounted for more variance in retrospective reports (39%–40%) than did prospective measures (26%), suggesting caution when using retrospective reports of childhood caregiving quality as a proxy for prospective data.

Significance of Extreme Temperament in Infancy for Clinical Status in Preschool Years

1989 ◽  
Vol 154 (4) ◽  
pp. 544-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Maziade ◽  
Jacques Thivierge ◽  
Robert Côté ◽  
Pierrette Boutin ◽  
Hugues Bernier
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Clinical Status ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Cognitive Characteristics ◽  
One Year ◽  
Long Term Prediction

Few, if any, of children's behavioural or cognitive characteristics assessed in the first years of life demonstrate stability until later childhood; early characteristics have so far failed to show an association with future psychopathology. This longitudinal study, from 4–8 months to 4.7 years old, focused on stability and change of extreme temperamental traits in groups of infants subselected from a large birth cohort. Persistent extreme temperament at four and eight months old did not increase stability of temperament to four years of age, relative to other children in the whole population. Sizeable change occurred, and the environmental parameters associated with negative temperamental change did not seem to be the same as those related to positive change. Boys with extreme scores were more stable, while girls appeared more prone to positive change. It is hypothesised that the direction of temperamental change in the first years could be more meaningful for long-term prediction of disorders than any one assessment of temperament taken at any one year.

scholarly journals Designing Retrospective Measures on Childhood for Older African American Adults

2019 ◽  
pp. 009141501988768
Author(s):  
Emily A. Greenfield
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
African American Adults ◽  
Retrospective Reports ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Scholarly Discourse ◽  
Racial Ethnic

A growing body of research addresses the long-term implications of early-life circumstances for adult health and aging by drawing on retrospective reports on childhood. There has been little scholarly discourse on considerations for the design of such questions for members of racial/ethnic minority groups specifically. This article aims to encourage greater attention to this area by presenting insights from the process of designing a childhood history questionnaire within an ongoing study of cognition, health, and aging among older African American adults in greater Newark, New Jersey. The article presents on three overarching themes, including the importance of (a) adopting a resilience orientation with attention to protective factors, (b) being sensitive to concerns about questions on adverse childhood experiences, and (c) orienting to ethnoracially embedded cohort influences. The article concludes by describing the particular importance of cultural humility—with attention to intersectional social positions—among researchers who are engaged in studies on childhood with older adults from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups.

scholarly journals The Accuracy of Retrospective Recall of Childhood ADHD: Results from a Longitudinal Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena von Wirth ◽  
Janet Mandler ◽  
Dieter Breuer ◽  
Manfred Döpfner
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Adhd Symptom ◽  
Symptom Severity ◽  
False Negative ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Clinical Samples ◽  
Childhood Adhd ◽  
Retrospective Reports ◽  
Symptom Ratings ◽  
Symptom Recall

AbstractAttention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a childhood-onset condition that may continue into adulthood. When assessing adult patients, clinicians usually rely on retrospective reports of childhood symptoms to evaluate the age-of-onset criterion. Since inaccurate symptom recall may impede the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD, knowledge about the factors influencing retrospective reports is needed. This longitudinal study investigated (a) the accuracy of retrospective symptom ratings by adult participants with a childhood diagnosis of ADHD (self-ratings) and parents or significant others (proxy ratings), and (b) the influence of current ADHD symptom severity and ADHD-associated impairments on retrospective symptom ratings. Participants (N = 55) were members of the Cologne Adaptive Multimodal Treatment (CAMT) study who had been referred and treated for ADHD in childhood and were reassessed in adulthood (average age 27 years). Participants’ retrospective self-ratings were substantially lower than, and did not correlate with, parents’ ADHD symptom ratings provided at study entry, while retrospective symptom ratings provided by proxy respondents correlated moderately with parents’ childhood ratings. In addition, participants were more likely to underreport childhood symptoms (79%) and more frequently denied the presence of three or more childhood symptoms (17%) compared to proxy respondents (65% underreporting, 10% false-negative recall). Proxy respondents’ symptom recall was best predicted by childhood ADHD, while participants’ symptom recall was best predicted by current ADHD symptom severity. ADHD-associated impairments were not correlated with symptom recall after controlling for childhood ADHD. Together, these findings suggest a recall bias in adult patients and question the validity of retrospective reports, even in clinical samples.

Age-Related Correlates of Self-Derogation: Report of Childhood Experiences6

1970 ◽  
Vol 117 (540) ◽  
pp. 533-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard B. Kaplan ◽  
Alex D. Pokorny
Keyword(s):  
Generational Differences ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Retrospective Reports ◽  
Evaluative Standards

Problem The following is a report of the differential relationships observed between retrospective reports of eight childhood experiences and self-derogation (SD) scores for adult subjects in five age groupings. Variability in the relationships between particular experiences and SD among the different age-groupings was to be expected for any of several reasons: social role-related variability in the evaluative significance of particular attributes (Kaplan, 1970); generational differences in evaluative standards; variability in interaction effects between earlier experiences and later circumstances associated with particular ages; etc.

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