@article{ref1,
title="Parent-adolescent discrepancies regarding adolescents' peer-related loneliness: associations with adolescent adjustment",
journal="Journal of youth and adolescence",
year="2017",
author="Spithoven, Annette W. M. and Vanhalst, Janne and Lodder, Gerine and Bijttebier, Patricia and Goossens, Luc",
volume="46",
number="5",
pages="1104-1116",
abstract="Because loneliness is a subjective experience, it is often examined using self-reports. Yet, researchers have started to use other-reports to examine loneliness. As previous research suggests that discrepancies between self- and other views might have important implications for adolescents' mental health, the current study examines discrepancies in multi-informant reports on adolescents' loneliness in relation with prosocial behavior, aggression, and adolescents' parent-related loneliness. The sample consisted of 374 mother-adolescent dyads and 318 father-adolescent dyads (41.80% male, M age  = 15.67 years, SD = 1.25). <br><br>RESULTS indicated that informants used different reference points to assess adolescents' peer-related loneliness, but were otherwise comparable. Moreover, informant discrepancies were associated with greater adolescents' reported parent-related loneliness. The current study did not provide evidence that discrepancies were related to prosocial or aggressive behavior. The current study adds to the notion that other-reports on loneliness show substantial convergence with self-reports. In addition, this study indicates that the discrepancy between other- and self-reports on loneliness holds valuable information for adolescent socio-emotional adjustment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0047-2891",
doi="10.1007/s10964-017-0662-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0662-z"
}