Psychometric properties of the screen for child anxiety related emotional disorders for socially anxious and healthy spanish adolescents

  1. Hale III, William W. 1
  2. Raaijmakers, Quinten A. W. 1
  3. García López, Luis Joaquín 2
  4. Espinosa Fernández, Lourdes 2
  5. Muela Martínez, José Antonio 2
  6. Díaz-Castela, María del Mar 2
  1. 1 Utrecht University
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    Utrecht University

    Utrecht, Holanda

    ROR https://ror.org/04pp8hn57

  2. 2 Universidad de Jaén
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    Universidad de Jaén

    Jaén, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0122p5f64

Revista:
The Spanish Journal of Psychology

ISSN: 1138-7416

Año de publicación: 2013

Número: 16

Páginas: 1-7

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2013.36 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: The Spanish Journal of Psychology

Resumen

Socially anxious and healthy Spanish adolescents were studied in order to test the psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED). Confirmatory factor analyses were employed to test measurement invariance between these two populations, Cronbach�s alphas were calculated to determine the reliabilities of the scales, and partial eta-square tests calculated the effect size of the differences between socially anxious and healthy adolescents and between the adolescent boys and girls. The psychometric properties of the SCARED were good, as demonstrated by having acceptable reliabilities (ranging from .75 � .41) and a moderate multivariate effect size (? p 2 = .08) between the adolescent boys and girls. Most importantly, it was demonstrated that the SCARED could differentiate between socially anxious and healthy Spanish adolescents as demonstrated by measurement invariance (? 2 = 254.27, df = 1343, GFI = .884, AGFI = .872, RMR = .031) and the large effect size (? p 2 = .22) between the samples.

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