Psychometric evaluation of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents and the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children: construct validity and normative data

Storch, Eric A.; Masia-Warner, Carrie; Dent, Heather C.; Roberti, Jonathan W.; Fisher, Paige H.

doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2003.09.002

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“…The SPAI-C has been found to be psychometrically strong, with high internal consistency (Beidel et al, 1995;Storch, Masia-Warner, Dent, Roberti & Fisher, 2004), strong 2-week test-retest reliability (Beidel et al, 1995), strong concurrent and external validity (Beidel, Turner, Hamlin, et al, 2000;Beidel et al, 1995), and good discriminant validity (Beidel, Turner, Hamlin, et al, 2000;Beidel et al, 1995). The Chronbach's alpha of the SPAI-C in the current study was .98.…”

Section: Social Phobia Anxiety Inventory For Children (Spai-c) Sociamentioning

confidence: 46%

Intensive Group-Based CBT for Child Social Phobia: A Pilot Study

et al. 2015

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Objective: Although CBT has proven efficacious in the treatment of child social phobia (SP), most children do not present for treatment and child SP may be less responsive to treatment than other anxiety disorders. Intensive, group-based, SP-specific CBT may improve the efficacy of, and access to, treatment for child SP. The aim of this study was to provide a preliminary examination of such a program. Method: Forty Australian children aged 7-12 years (15 male and 25 female) were allocated into treatment and waitlist groups. Clinical interviews to determine diagnostic status were conducted prior to treatment, following treatment and at 6-month follow-up. Parent and child questionnaire measures of child anxiety symptoms, internalising symptoms, depression, social skills, social competence, and parental social anxiety were administered at the same time points. Treatment was delivered in four separate 3-hour sessions conducted over three consecutive weekends. Results: At postassessment, 52.4% of children in the treatment group and 15.8% of children in the waitlist group were free of their SP diagnosis. At post-assessment, compared to waitlist children, treatment group children demonstrated a greater drop in clinical severity, a greater increase in overall functioning, and held fewer clinical diagnoses. Treatment group children also reported a greater reduction in SP symptoms compared to waitlist children, and treatment group parents reported a greater reduction in child internalising and anxiety symptoms, a greater increase in child social competence, and a greater decrease in parental SP symptoms, compared to parents of children in the waitlist group. By 6-month follow-up, 76.9% of the treatment group were free of their SP diagnosis and gains on all other measures were maintained. Conclusions: The results of this study are encouraging, and suggest that brief, intensive, group CBT for children with social anxiety is beneficial for many youngsters. A C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTIntensive Group-Based CBT for Child Social Phobia 3 Social Phobia (SP) or Social Anxiety Disorder, is an anxiety disorder where the individual demonstrates a marked fear or anxiety about one or more social situations where they are exposed to possible scrutiny by others (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). It is one of the most common childhood anxiety disorders (Costello, Egger, & Angold, 2005), is associated with a myriad of deleterious short-and long-term consequences (Beidel, Turner, & Morris, 1999), and follows a chronic course if left untreated (Weissman et al., 1999).Fortunately, there have now been a number of studies confirming that cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is efficacious in treating childhood SP.Beidel and colleagues (Beidel & Turner, 2007;Beidel, Turner, & Young, 2006) conducted a series of studies demonstrating the efficacy of their behaviourally oriented Social Effectiveness Therapy for Children (SET-C). In the original randomized control trial of the SET-C program , it was found that...

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Section: Social Phobia Anxiety Inventory For Children (Spai-c) Sociamentioning

confidence: 46%

Intensive Group-Based CBT for Child Social Phobia: A Pilot Study

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“…In discriminant function analyses, the SPAI-C correctly classified 83% of children with SP, while 19% of non-social anxious children and 20% of children with externalizing disorders were misclassified as having SP [5]. The SPAI-C is translated into several languages, and there are many international studies of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents that have used the SPAI-C as a measure of SP [7,13,23,29,32]. However, only two publications regarding the psychometrics of translated version of the SPAI-C (German, Portuguese) are currently available [10,22].…”

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confidence: 99%

Psychometric evaluation of social phobia and anxiety inventory for children (SPAI-C) and social anxiety scale for children-revised (SASC-R)

Kuusikko

Pollock-Wurman

Ebeling

et al. 2008

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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The study evaluated the psychometric properties of Finnish versions of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C) and the Social Anxiety Scale for Children-Revised (SASC-R). 352 students (M = 12.2 years) participated in the study and completed the SPAI-C and SASC-R. In addition, 68 participants (M = 12.2 years) and their parents were interviewed with the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School Aged Children (K-SADS-PL). The SPAI-C was more sensitive for identifying youth meeting criteria for social phobia (SP), whereas the SASC-R demonstrated greater specificity. The youth in this sample had lower mean total scores on the self-report questionnaires than did those in the original validitation studies of the SPAI-C and SASC-R conducted in America. These findings question whether cross-cultural differences in the expression of SP influence the clinical cut-off scores used in translated versions of social anxiety questionnaires

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“…That nearly 70% of adolescents in the SP group reported having been bullied substantiates and extends earlier findings on the association between peer victimization and self-reported social anxiety among adolescents. [30,55] Longitudinal survey studies have suggested that peer victimization may lead to heightened levels of social anxiety at a later phase, and that the type of victimization (overt/relational victimization) may have role in how victimization and social anxiety temporally relate to each other. [60,61] Internal factors such as selfworth may differentially mediate or moderate the association between victimization and social anxiety among adolescent boys and girls.…”

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confidence: 99%