Our results also indicated that parent-adolescent discrepancies in disinhibition, psychosis,
and total ESS were related to the percent of the adolescents’ disability as measured by their
parents. This disability percentage was not significantly associated with the Kiddie-GAS
score measuring the level of functioning of the adolescent and computed by the clinicians
(r=-0.05, p=0.79). Re-stated, parental impression of disability may be associated with the
informant discrepancies. Likewise, prior studies demonstrated that parents provided more
severe ratings than their children in the clinical samples; but less severe ratings than youth in
nonclinical samples (Salbach-Andrae, Klinkowski, Lenz, & Lehmkuhl, 2009). The number
of hospitalizations was also linked to discrepancies in disinhibition. There was no significant
associations between discrepancies and several parental characteristics (e.g. parents’ age,
years of education and number of children) or between discrepancies and children’s
characteristics (e.g. length of illness).