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1. Validation of the Short Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder Screener (SOCS) in children and adolescents

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Luisa Lázaro, Elena Moreno, Ana G. Ortiz, Antonio Godoy, Tíscar Rodríguez-Jiménez, and José A. Piqueras

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Paper, 050103 clinical psychology, medicine.medical_specialty, education, 05 social sciences, MEDLINE, Creative commons, Factor structure, behavioral disciplines and activities, humanities, 030227 psychiatry, 03 medical and health sciences, Psychiatry and Mental health, 0302 clinical medicine, Obsessive compulsive, Internal consistency, mental disorders, medicine, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Screening tool, Psychiatry, Psychology, Reliability (statistics), Clinical psychology
Abstract

BackgroundThe Short Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder Screener (SOCS) is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence as a suitable and validated screening tool for 11- to 15-year olds. Despite its excellent sensitivity and specificity in detecting obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), it has limitations.AimsTo empirically examine whether the SOCS is suitable for assessing OCD symptoms across a wide age range of children and adolescents and to provide new data about its psychometric properties.MethodParticipants were 94 patients (9–19 years) with OCD, and 880 healthy controls.ResultsThe results supported the SOCS' unidimensional factor structure and metric invariance across samples. It showed good reliability in terms of internal consistency and temporal stability. Furthermore, it had significantly high correlations with other OCD measures and an acceptable sensitivity and specificity for detecting OCD.ConclusionsThe SOCS is a brief screening tool suitable for detecting OCD in children and adolescents.

Published
2015

2. Children’s Attributional Style From Middle Childhood to Early Adolescence: Further Validation of the Paper-and-Pencil Versions of the Children’s Attributional Style Interview

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Sandra Yu Rueger, Beth A. Haines, and Christine Kerres Malecki

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Male, Paper, Adolescent, Psychometrics, Writing, Early adolescence, Statistics as Topic, Psychology, Child, Factor structure, Middle childhood, Developmental psychology, Helplessness, Learned, Predictive Value of Tests, Surveys and Questionnaires, Interview, Psychological, Humans, Child, Applied Psychology, Pencil (mathematics), Analysis of Variance, Depression, Age Factors, Cognition, Affect, Clinical Psychology, Attitude, Convergent validity, Feasibility Studies, Female, Attribution, Psychology, Clinical psychology
Abstract

The psychometric properties of two paper-and-pencil versions of the Children’s Attributional Style Interview (i.e., CASI-I and CASI-II) were evaluated in a sample of 166 third and fourth graders and a sample of 245 sixth and seventh graders. The results demonstrated strong internal consistency reliability, convergent validity, and a factor structure that was consistent with theory in both samples. Furthermore, analyses demonstrated adequate evidence of the reliability and validity of several dimensional subscale scores and the composite measures of attributional style for both positive and negative events. These results suggest the utility of the CASI in research testing specific attributional predictions of cognitive theories of depression with the dimensional subscale scores. They further add to the literature by demonstrating item-level factor analytic support for a children’s attributional style measure and the feasibility of administration sizes larger than previously tested, which add to the utility of the CASI in large-scale research designs.

Published
2009