Multiple informant agreement of child, parent, and teacher ratings of child anxiety within community samples.

Objective: Extant research concerning the degree of multiple informant (that is, parent, clinician, teacher, and child) agreement for child anxiety ratings generally uses clinical samples, and results have been mixed.

Method: Our study used a community sample of public school children (n = 1039) to investigate child (self), parent, and teacher reports of child anxiety across 3 time points (pretreatement, posttreatment, and follow-up) in 3 independent school prevention and intervention trials.

Results: Results showed that parents and teachers had high informant agreement for ratings on anxiety across the 3 time points (r = 0.