This paper examines associations between informants, correlates and child disorders in a sample of 230 outpatients six to 14 years of age. K-SADS-E diagnoses and scores were studied according to informant, gender, age group, mental health of the parents, life events and parents' relationship. The results show that parents underreport their daughters' internalized disorders compared with reports of children and adolescents and that male children and adolescents underreport all types of disorders compared with the reports of their parents. Intra-informant correlations and differences between informants suggest an uneven influence according to informants of correlates on the report of child disorders.
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