Psychometric properties of the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) in Mainland Chinese children and adolescents

Psychometric Properties of the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS) in Chinese Adolescents

“…In their original study, Schniering and Rapee [24] found no significant differences on the CATS scales between children aged 7-11 and adolescents aged 12-16. Putting these results together, it is possible that negative thoughts increase specifically during the later teenage years, which is consistent with research showing higher levels of anxiety symptoms among Chinese adolecents than children [20,21]. Alternately, it is possible that the differences between the current results and those of Schniering and Rapee reflect minor cultural differences in reporting or experience of negative beliefs.…”

“…This finding regarding thoughts of hostility among Chinese adolescents is consistent with previous research [24]. It is surprising that no significant gender differences were found on automatic thoughts related to internalizing disorders (such as social threat or personal failure) which appears contradictory to research showing that girls demonstrate higher levels of anxiety and depression than boys [19,21,37,38]. This finding points to a potentially interesting disjunction between thoughts, emotional experience, and behavior or a possible cultural difference that deserves further investigation.…”

“…For example, two measures of anxious symptomatology, the screen for child anxiety related emotional disorders (SCARED) and the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) have been validated in Chinese youth [20,21]. Two broader measures of symptoms for use with young people have also been translated and evaluated in adolescent Chinese samples, the Achenbach youth self-report (YSR) and the strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) [22,23].…”

Effect of an early perinatal depression intervention on long-term child development outcomes: follow-up of the Thinking Healthy Programme randomised controlled trial

“…In Asia, the SCAS has been validated in China among 8--15 year olds, and found to have good convergent and divergent validity with satisfactory reliability. 38 With regard to modelling associations of interest, heteroskedastic error terms remained with various SCAS specifications; while not expected to bias our estimate, this might lead to the variance being estimated with error. The reliability coefficient for the SDQ TD was also lower than coefficients previously reported in other non--Western settings,…”

Estado nutricional, condición física, rendimiento escolar, nivel de ansiedad y hábitos de salud en estudiantes de primaria de la provincia del Bio Bío (Chile): estudio transversal

“…Los puntajes totales y de las subescalas de todos los grupos, superaron los valores de referencia para la población infantil y adolescente (22,81 para hombres y 27,51 para mujeres) 18 situación que no deja de ser preocupante, pensando en la corta edad de nuestra muestra. No se encontraron diferencias en los niveles de ansiedad entre niños y niñas, hecho que contrasta con la mayoría de la literatura 36 . Una explicación posible es que los mayores niveles de ansiedad de las niñas con respecto a los niños se han encontrado alrededor de la pubertad cuando existe mayor presión social y familiar por tener un peso normal y perderlo si se ha ganado 37 .…”