Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): Psychometric Properties in an African-American Parochial High School Sample

Boyd, Rhonda C.; Ginsburg, Golda S.; Lambert, Sharon F.; Cooley, Michele R.; Campbell, Karren D. M.

doi:10.1097/00004583-200310000-00009

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“…Although subclinical levels of anxiety are common in childhood [2], studies using clinical samples are necessary to investigate whether attachment is related to specific anxiety disorders. Nonetheless, it is important to note that the mean scores of different anxiety symptoms in this study were higher than those reported in other studies based largely on community samples and closer to those reported in studies of children with an anxiety disorder [24,34]. It is likely that families might have chosen to participate in this study because they had a child experiencing anxiety problems.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 43%

Mother–Child Attachment Patterns and Different Types of Anxiety Symptoms: Is There Specificity of Relations?

Brumariu

Kerns

2010

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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The purpose of this study was to test Manassis' proposal (Child-parent relations: Attachment and anxiety disorders, 255-272, 2001) that attachment patterns (secure, ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized) may relate to different types of anxiety symptoms, and that behavioral inhibition may moderate these relations. Using a story stem interview to assess attachment and children's reports of anxiety symptoms, we found some support for these hypotheses in a sample of 10-12 years olds. Security was related to lower levels of all types of anxieties, except separation anxiety. Ambivalence was positively related to separation anxiety, although this relation was stronger for boys. Although avoidance was not related to anxiety, disorganization was positively related to somatic symptoms, social phobia, and school phobia. Behavioral inhibition moderated the relations of security with social phobia, and of disorganization with school phobia. The findings suggest that it is important to consider specificity between attachment patterns and various types of anxiety symptoms and to recognize that these relations may be altered by other risk factors.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 43%

Mother–Child Attachment Patterns and Different Types of Anxiety Symptoms: Is There Specificity of Relations?

Brumariu

Kerns

2010

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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“…Boyd, Ginsburg, Lambert, Cooley, and Campbell (2003) reported adequate psychometric properties for the SCARED with this sample of African American high school students; however, the factor structure varied from the normative sample. In this study, coefficient alpha for the SCARED total score was excellent (.89).…”

Section: Screen For Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (Scared;mentioning

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Somatic Symptoms and Anxiety Among African American Adolescents

Kingery

Ginsburg

Alfano

2007

Journal of Black Psychology

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“…The Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC) [7] is a 39-item self-report instrument that measures a broad range of anxiety symptoms in youth aged [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. Items are scored using a four-point scale (i.e., never true, rarely true, sometimes true, often true).…”

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“…Indeed, studies that have evaluated other anxiety self-report measures with samples of African American youth have revealed differences in the psychometric characteristics of these measures [e.g., 16,19,20]. For example, Lambert and colleagues [16] reported that the Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index [21] yielded two factors (i.e., physical concerns and mental incapacitation) rather than the factor structure obtained with White children (i.e., a higher-order factor with three lower-order factors: physical concerns, mental incapacitation, and control; or a higher-order factor with four lower order factors: physical concerns, mental incapacitation, control, and social concerns) [20].…”

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Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children in an African American Adolescent Sample

Kingery

Ginsburg

Burstein

2009

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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The current study examined the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC) among a community sample of 118 African American students (58 females; ages 14-19 years; mean age = 15.79) in an urban, parochial high school. Adolescents completed the MASC and several other self-report measures of anxiety, perceived competence, and symptoms of ADHD. The original MASC total and subscale mean scores were comparable to data reported in previous studies utilizing community samples of youth, though measures of internal consistency were lower. Factor analytic results supported a three factor solution (i.e., social anxiety, physical symptoms, harm avoidance) which accounted for 23.84% of the variance. While there was overlap in the underlying structure of anxiety between the original MASC publication and the current sample, items reflecting separation anxiety did not emerge as a separate factor. As expected, the MASC total score was positively correlated with measures of anxiety and perceived competence but unrelated to measures of hyperactivity. This study represents an important first step toward establishing more comprehensive age, race, and gender norms for the MASC.

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Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): Psychometric Properties in an African-American Parochial High School Sample

Cited by 78 publications

References 24 publications

Mother–Child Attachment Patterns and Different Types of Anxiety Symptoms: Is There Specificity of Relations?

Mother–Child Attachment Patterns and Different Types of Anxiety Symptoms: Is There Specificity of Relations?

Somatic Symptoms and Anxiety Among African American Adolescents

Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children in an African American Adolescent Sample

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