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Parents' perception of adolescent behavior problems

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Fifty-seven parents, usually mothers, rated their adolescent sons and daughters on the Walker Checklist at the time of their initial clinic appointment. Parents perceived this group of adolescents as more disturbed than the elementary school age normative group on three of the scales, Immaturity, Acting Out, and Distractibility. The results support an increase in behavior problems at adolescence which is more marked for the younger females and younger males. Neither gender nor age, separately, determines the degree of behavioral disturbance, with one exception. The scores of both the younger and older male groups are significantly higher than the scores of their corresponding female groups on the school-related Distractibility scale.

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  1. Adolescent Clinic, Child Development and Mental Retardation Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

    Mary M. Campbell (Staff Psychologist)

  2. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

    Kathleen Cooper (Psychology student)

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  1. Mary M. Campbell
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Received her Ph.D. from University of Washington 1959. Interests are adolescent development, personality, and evaluative research.

Community Practice student in the Adolescent Clinic.

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Campbell, M.M., Cooper, K. Parents' perception of adolescent behavior problems. J Youth Adolescence 4, 309–320 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01536896

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