• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.67-76
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• 2001

The purpose of this study was to explore the consistency between rators(mother report & child self-report) of children's externalization and internalization behavior problems and to examine the effect of mother\`s depressive traits and child\`s negative emotionality on consistency between rators. Subjects were 434 children attending grades 4, 5, and 6 in Pusan and their mothers. Results of this study were as follows ; First, children reported significantly greater on behavior problems than their mothers and correlations between mother's and child's score on behavior problems was .20 (externalization behavior problems) or .27(internalization behavior problems). Second, mother's depressive traits influenced significantly the consistency between rators of externalization behavior problems. Third, child's negative emotionality influenced significantly the consistency between rators of externalization behavior problems.