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Life events: children's reports.

D Bailey1, M E Garralda

  • 1University of Manchester, Booth Hall Children's Hospital, Great Britain.

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
|November 1, 1990
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This study explored children's life events using a questionnaire. Children reported more positive and negative events than parents, especially those with psychiatric issues or attending pediatric clinics.

Area of Science:

  • Child Psychology
  • Pediatric Health
  • Life Events Research

Background:

  • Understanding children's subjective experiences is crucial in developmental psychology and pediatric care.
  • Life events questionnaires are valuable tools for assessing psychosocial factors in children.
  • Previous research has explored adult life events, but child-specific data requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a questionnaire for children aged 7-12 to report experienced life events.
  • To investigate the types of positive and negative life events children commonly report.
  • To compare children's self-reported events with parental reports and explore differences across clinical and non-clinical groups.

Main Methods:

  • A questionnaire was administered to children aged 7-12 to record events from the past three months.

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  • Data collection involved both child self-reports and, where possible, parental reports for comparison.
  • Analysis focused on common themes, agreement between reporters, and differences between psychiatrically disturbed children, pediatric clinic attendees, and primary school children.

    • Main Results:

    • Most children successfully completed the questionnaire, reporting diverse positive and negative life events.
    • Common themes included personal achievement, illness, and relationship issues.
    • Children reported significantly more events than parents; psychiatrically disturbed children reported more negative/loss events, while pediatric clinic attendees reported fewer positive events.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed Child Life Events questionnaire is a viable tool for assessing children's perceptions.
    • The findings highlight differences in event reporting based on psychiatric status and healthcare attendance.
    • This tool can be valuable for exploring the lived experiences of vulnerable children, including those with psychiatric disturbances or chronic illnesses.