Reliability and validity of parent and child versions of the multidimensional anxiety scale for children in community samples
Reliability and validity of parent and child versions of the multidimensional anxiety scale for children in community samples
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DOI：
10.1097/01.chi.0000246065.93200.a1
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发表时间：
2007-02-01
影响因子：
13.3
通讯作者：
Dadds, Mark R.
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作者：
Baldwin, Jennifer S.;Dadds, Mark R.
目的：评估儿童多维焦虑量表（MASC）的心理测量学特性，该量表测量身体症状、伤害回避、社交焦虑和分离/恐慌。方法：使用社区样本的澳大利亚儿童（8 - 13岁），内部稳定性，因素结构，和收敛效度的儿童和家长报告版本的MASC进行了检查。共有499名儿童在第1次参与，占受邀参与儿童的18%; 91%在12个月随访时保留。结果如下：中度到较强的内部可靠性表现在所有的MASC分量表，并支持原来的四因素结构的措施。一个高阶焦虑因素被发现占四个因素之间的相互关系。低亲子协议被发现的MASC，而MASC和斯宾塞儿童焦虑量表之间的相关性表现出良好的收敛效度内的报告者（除伤害回避量表）。在12个月的时间内，得分显示出更大的稳定性，父母的报告比孩子的报告。结论：这项研究是第一次证明，因素结构的MASC举行的儿童和家长报告的焦虑。MASC可用于在临床评估期间直接比较儿童和父母的症状报告。J. Am. Acad.儿童青少年精神病学，2007; 46（2）：252 - 260.
Objective: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC), which measures physical symptoms, harm avoidance, social anxiety, and separation/panic. Method: Using a community sample of Australian children (8-13 years old), the internal stability, factor structure, and convergent validity of child- and parent-report versions of the MASC were examined. A total of 499 children participated at time 1, which represented 18% of children invited to participate; 91% were retained at 12-month follow-up. Results: Moderate to strong internal reliability was exhibited across all MASC subscales, and support was found for the original four-factor structure of the measure. A higher-order anxiety factor was found to account for the intercorrelation between the four factors. Low parent-child agreement was found on the MASC, whereas correlations between the MASC and the Spence Children's Anxiety Scales demonstrated good convergent validity within reporter (excepting the harm avoidance scale). Scores over a 12-month period showed greater stability for parent reports than for child reports. Conclusions: This study is the first to demonstrate that the factor structure of the MASC holds for both child and parent reports of anxiety. The MASC is useful for directly comparing symptom reporting across children and parents during clinical assessment. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry, 2007;46(2):252-260.