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Principles underlying the use of multiple informants' reports
Andres De Los Reyes1, Sarah A Thomas, Kimberly L Goodman
1Comprehensive Assessment and Intervention Program, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA. adlr@umd.edu
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
|November 13, 2012
Summary
Informant report discrepancies in behavior research are common. A new framework, the Operations Triad Model, helps researchers analyze these differences for meaningful insights, moving beyond treating them as mere measurement error.
Area of Science:
- Behavioral Science
- Psychological Assessment
- Research Methodology
Background:
- Multiple informants are frequently used to assess behavior.
- Discrepancies in informant reports, such as perceived mood levels, are common and lead to inconsistent findings.
- Current research often treats these discrepancies as measurement error, which may be unjustifiable.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce and outline the Operations Triad Model framework.
- To provide principles for using and interpreting multiple informant reports.
- To enable researchers to extract meaningful behavioral information from informant discrepancies.
Main Methods:
- Review of existing literature on informant discrepancies.
- Development of the Operations Triad Model framework.
- Discussion of the framework's application in hypothesis testing, study design, and quantitative reviews.
Main Results:
- The Operations Triad Model offers a structured approach to analyzing informant report discrepancies.
- The framework allows for testing whether discrepancies contain meaningful behavioral information.
- Supportive evidence for the framework's utility is presented.
Conclusions:
- The Operations Triad Model provides a novel way to interpret informant discrepancies.
- Researchers can leverage this framework to improve the validity of multi-informant studies.
- This approach enhances hypothesis testing, study design, and quantitative reviews in behavioral research.
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