Performance of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale in a Sample of Children and Adolescents from Poor Urban Communities in Cape Town
Performance of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale in a Sample of Children and Adolescents from Poor Urban Communities in Cape Town
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DOI：
10.1027/1015-5759/a000134
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发表时间：
2013-01-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Cluver, Lucie D.
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作者：
Boyes, Mark E.;Cluver, Lucie D.
修订儿童明显焦虑量表（RCMAS）经常用于南非儿童，尽管其在这方面的表现尚未得到实证评估。本研究利用一项大型研究收集的数据，评估了RCMAS的基本心理测量特性，该研究调查了生活在开普敦周围贫困城市社区的儿童和青少年的心理健康。量表的信度较好，焦虑、抑郁、创伤后应激障碍、犯罪、年龄、性别和躯体主义得分之间的预测关系为结构效度提供了证据。然而，生理、担忧/过度敏感和浓度三个分量表的信度较低，验证性因子分析显示假设的三因素模型不能充分拟合数据。探索性分析提出了由社会评价、担忧、情感反应和生理症状/睡眠障碍因素组成的四因素解决方案。需要进一步的验证性研究来检验这种四因素结构。考虑到RCMAS在南非的持续使用，这些发现为建立其在南非青年中使用的可靠性和有效性提供了重要的第一步；然而，在三个子量表上获得的分数应该谨慎解释，显然需要对南非样本的RCMAS进行进一步详细的心理测量评估。
The Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) is regularly used with South African children, although its performance in this context has yet to be empirically evaluated. This study assessed the basic psychometric properties of the RCMAS using data collected in a large study examining the mental health of children and adolescents living in poor urban communities around Cape Town. Reliability of the full-scale was good, and the predicted relationships between anxiety, depression, PTSD, delinquency, age, sex, and somaticism scores offered evidence of construct validity. However, the reliabilities for the physiological, worry/oversensitivity, and concentration subscales were low, and confirmatory factor analysis revealed the hypothesized three-factor model did not adequately fit the data. Exploratory analyses suggested a four-factor solution consisting of social evaluation, worry, affective responses, and physiological symptoms/sleep disturbance factors. Further confirmatory research examining this four-factor structure is needed. Given the continued use of the RCMAS in South Africa, these findings provide an important first step in establishing its reliability and validity for use with South African youth; however, scores obtained on the three subscales should be interpreted with caution and further detailed psychometric evaluation of the RCMAS in South African samples is clearly required.