Anxiety in Portuguese Pre-School Children – Adaptation of the Spence Pre-School Anxiety Scale

Almeida, Jorge; Viana, Víctor

doi:10.15309/13psd140308

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“…The results of this study provide support for the reliability and convergent validity of the PAS in the Spanish preschool population. Internal consistency ( α = 0.84) was good and similar to previous studies carried out with preschool‐aged children in other countries such as The Netherlands ( α = 0.86; Broeren & Muris, ), Romania ( α was 0.87 and 0.89 for the mother and father reports, respectively; Benga et al, ), China ( α = 0.87; Wang & Zhao, ), and Portugal ( α = 0.88, Almeida & Viana, ). Reliability coefficients for each subscale were acceptable with alphas ranging between 0.63 and 0.73, except for the PIF subscale ( α = 0.50).…”

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“…Reliability coefficients for each subscale were acceptable with alphas ranging between 0.63 and 0.73, except for the PIF subscale ( α = 0.50). Attending to the available data of the PAS, the PIF subscale's consistency was found to be moderate to good among studies (e.g., Almeida & Viana, ; Broeren & Muris, ). Although the reason for the low internal consistency found in this study for the PIF subscale is unclear, it may be explained by the low number of items in this subscale ( n = 3) included in the Spanish version.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Psychometric properties of the PAS have also been examined in Chinese (Wang & Zhao, ), Dutch (Broeren & Muris, ), Romanian (Benga, Tincas, & Visu‐Petra, ), and Portuguese (Almeida & Viana, ) children, being the original five‐factor structure proposed by Spence et al () supported by most of these studies (i.e., Almeida & Viana, ; Benga et al, ; Wang & Zhao, ). A different structure, with a five‐factor model that excludes the separation anxiety factor and includes two separate factors representing physical injury fears, has been found in a Dutch sample (Broeren & Muris, ).…”

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Spanish validation of the Spence Preschool Anxiety Scale

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Spanish validation of the Spence Preschool Anxiety Scale

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Fernández-Martínez

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“…The Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS) was used to evaluate six dimensions of anxiety symptoms (Separation Anxiety Subscale; Social Anxiety Subscale; Obsessive Compulsive Subscale; Physical Injury Fears; Generalized Anxiety; Total anxiety) from 28 items rated on a 5-point Likert scale, with 0 being "never" to 4 being "always". The instrument had previously been adapted and validated for Brazilian Portuguese 16 and had been shown to have high internal consistency (α = 0.88). A T-score of 60 as indicative of sub-clinical or elevated levels of anxiety.…”

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Evaluation of FunFRIENDS program in prevention of anxiety in Brazilian children: a randomized controlled pilot trial

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Andrade

Zeggio

et al. 2020

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This study aimed to evaluate the effects of the FunFRIENDS protocol on anxiety symptoms, internalizing problems and prosocial behavior in 4- to 5-year old children. Participated of this study 43 children with an allocation ratio of 1:1 between groups (Intervention Group [IG], N = 21; Control Group [CG], N = 22) from a public school in the city of Sao Paulo participated in the study. Behaviors were evaluated by using standardized questionnaires (PAS, CBCL, SDQ, SCBE) assessing the behavioral profile of the children at three different periods; baseline (T0), one month (T1) and three months (T2) after the intervention. It was observed a reduction in the intensity of anxiety symptoms in the IG after the intervention but with no significant effect. Overall, there were no significant differences between the IG and the CG in most behaviors on all periods evaluated. On both Intention-to-Treat analyses also it was not detected significant effects of the intervention. This is the first Brazilian study evaluating the effects of FunFRIENDS program and the implications of these findings are discussed and its significance for future research.

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“…Testing the measurement properties of the higher-order model of the PAS could help us understand if the PAS is a reliable and valid tool for assessing both specific anxiety symptom subtypes and general anxiety in young children and, thus, can be applied as an assessment tool in both transdiagnostic and diagnosis-specific anxiety treatments for young children. However, unlike the measurement properties (e.g., reliability, construct validity, convergent validity) of the five-factor model of the PAS, which have been examined and supported in many countries (e.g., Almeida & Viana, 2013; Orgilés et al, 2016; Wang & Zhao, 2015), the higher-order model of the PAS has rarely been tested in samples outside Australia.…”

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Measurement invariance of the higher-order model of Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS) across child age, gender, parental anxiety, and pandemic period in England.

Zhou,

Creswell,

Spence

et al. 2024

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The Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS) is a parent-report scale measuring young children's anxiety symptoms involving five specific anxiety symptoms (separation anxiety, physical injury fears, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety) that load on a higher-order factor representing general anxiety shared by all specific anxiety symptom subtypes. Although the PAS has been widely used to assess anxiety symptoms in young children, few studies have tested its measurement invariance for group comparisons. Using data from a sample of 2,221 children and their parents/carers in the United Kingdom, this study investigated the measurement invariance of the higher-order model of the PAS across child age (4-6 years vs. 6-7 years), gender (girls vs. boys), parental anxiety (low vs. high level), and children's living circumstances (before vs. after the removal of COVID-19 restrictions). Our findings demonstrated the good factor structure, internal consistency, and convergent validity of the higher-order model of the PAS in all subgroups and supported its configural, metric, and scalar invariance across these subgroups. Therefore, the findings suggest that the PAS is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing specific anxiety symptoms and general anxiety among young children in the United Kingdom and that comparisons can be made between the subgroups under examination. Public Significance StatementThe Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS) is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing specific anxiety symptoms and general anxiety in young children in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, given that the findings indicate measurement invariance of the higher-order model of the PAS, the specific anxiety symptom subscales and general anxiety scale of the PAS can be compared across child age, child gender, parent/carers' anxiety levels, and children's living circumstances (e.g., before and after the removal of the COVID-19 restrictions).

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Anxiety in Portuguese Pre-School Children – Adaptation of the Spence Pre-School Anxiety Scale

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Spanish validation of the Spence Preschool Anxiety Scale

Spanish validation of the Spence Preschool Anxiety Scale

Evaluation of FunFRIENDS program in prevention of anxiety in Brazilian children: a randomized controlled pilot trial

Measurement invariance of the higher-order model of Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS) across child age, gender, parental anxiety, and pandemic period in England.

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