A Comparison of Metacognitive Ratings of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury and Their Family Members

Clients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) who were referred for neuropsychological testing were asked to provide self-ratings of their intellectual, social, memory, and academic skills. Their family members and relatives were asked to rate the clients on the same scales. The ratings were correlated with the client's neuropsychological test scores. The results indicated that clients tend to underestimate their cognitive deficits compared to their relatives or family members. The relatives' ratings correlated with a wider range of neuropsychological measures. Different sets of ratings for the relatives and clients correlated with the test scores.