1. SPANISH VALIDATION OF THE PARENT VERSION OF THE SPENCE CHILDREN'S ANXIETY SCALE (SCAS-P) IN A CLINICAL SAMPLE.
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Forcadell, Eduard, Garcia-Delgar, Blanca, Medrano, Laura, Garcia, Carolina, Orgilés, Mireia, Lázaro, Luisa, and Lera-Miguel, Sara
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ANXIETY disorders , *CHILD anxiety testing , *DEPRESSION in children , *ANXIETY in children , *STATISTICAL correlation - Abstract
The child version of the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS-C) has demonstrated good psychometric properties, but research has scarcely focused on the parent version of the questionnaire (SCAS-P). We aimed to validate the Spanish version of the SCAS-P in a clinical sample (N= 137) of children and adolescents through their parents' responses. The Spanish version of the SCAS-P showed good internal consistency for the total scale and for most subscales (Cronbach's alpha between .49 y .83) and excellent test-retest reliability for all subscales (r between .71 and .91). Furthermore, convergent and divergent validity were supported by higher correlations with other measures of anxiety (r= .51), and lower correlations with measures of depression (r= .43) and externalizing problems (r= .34). For the first time in an exclusively clinical sample, the original factor structure of the SCAS-P based on six correlated factors was partially confirmed. The validation of the SCAS-P in a clinical sample provides professionals with a tool that better reflects the characteristics of their patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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