The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): Informant Discrepancy, Measurement Invariance, and Test-Retest Reliability
The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): Informant Discrepancy, Measurement Invariance, and Test-Retest Reliability
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DOI：
10.1007/s10578-018-0854-0
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发表时间：
2019-06-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Pagliaccio, David
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作者：
Behrens, Brigid;Swetlitz, Caroline;Pagliaccio, David
儿童焦虑相关情绪障碍筛查（SCARED）是一种广泛用于评估儿童焦虑的措施，基于父母和孩子的报告。然而，虽然SCARED是一个可靠的，有效的，敏感的措施来筛选儿童焦虑症，线人的差异可能会带来临床和研究的挑战。本研究在1092名焦虑和健康的亲子对中评估了SCARED的信息不一致性、测量不变性、重测信度和外部效度。我们的研究结果表明，差异并没有系统地改变各种临床，人口统计学和家族变量检查。有支持严格的测量不变性，强大的重测信度和足够的外部效度与临床医生评定的焦虑措施。这些研究结果进一步支持了SCARED在临床和研究环境中的实用性，但亲子一致性低突出了进一步调查SCARED信息不一致因素的必要性。
The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) is a measure widely used to assess childhood anxiety based on parent and child report. However, while the SCARED is a reliable, valid, and sensitive measure to screen for pediatric anxiety disorders, informant discrepancy can pose clinical and research challenges. The present study assesses informant discrepancy, measurement invariance, test-retest reliability, and external validity of the SCARED in 1092 anxious and healthy parent-child dyads. Our findings indicate that discrepancy does not vary systematically by the various clinical, demographic, and familial variables examined. There was support for strict measurement invariance, strong test-retest reliability, and adequate external validity with a clinician-rated measure of anxiety. These findings further support the utility of the SCARED in clinical and research settings, but low parent-child agreement highlights the need for further investigation of factors contributing to SCARED informant discrepancy.