The structure of anxiety symptoms among adolescents in Iran: A confirmatory factor analytic study of the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale

Essau, Cecilia A.; Olaya, Beatriz; Pasha, Gholamreza; O′Callaghan, Jean; Bray, Diane

doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2012.08.001

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“…The Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS; Spence, 1998; Essau et al, 2012b; Zhao et al, 2012) is a child self-report measure of symptoms relating to six subsets of anxiety disorders: social phobia, separation anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic-agoraphobia, generalized anxiety and fears of physical injury in children aged 8 and above. The SCAS shows high internal consistency for the total scale as well as for each subscale, with coefficient alphas ranging from 0.60 to 0.92 (Spence, 1998).…”

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Preventing Internalizing Problems in 6–8 Year Old Children: A Universal School-Based Program

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The Aussie Optimism Program: Feelings and Friends (AOP-FF) is a 10 week, universal mental health promotion program based on social/emotional and cognitive and behavioral strategies. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the efficacy of a universal Cognitive Behavioral Therapy based program in preventing and reducing internalizing problems in 6–8 year olds (Years 1–3 in Australia). Year 1–3 students from a low SES primary school (N = 206) were randomly assigned in classes to either an intervention or a control group and assessed at baseline and post-test. Results showed a significant (p = 0.009) and small to moderate (partial eta-squared = 0.034) pre-post decrease in parent-reported anxiety symptoms for the intervention group, in conjunction with a non-significant (p = 0.708) and negligible (partial eta-squared = 0.001) pre-post increase for the control group. A larger randomized controlled trial assessing longer term effects is needed. In addition the program needs to be simplified for year 1–2 students with a separate more developmentally appropriate program for year 3 students.

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“…On this measure, the individual is asked to rate the extent to which the statement (e.g., "I worry about things") applies to them generally on a 4-point scale ranging from 0 (never) to 3 (always). Studies administering the SCAS to youth ranging from 7 to 19 years have reported high internal consistency (Essau, Olaya, Pasha, O'Callaghan, & Bray, 2012;Spence, 1998;Zhao, Xing, & Wang, 2012), good convergent validity (Muris, Schmidt, & Merckelbach, 2000;Orgil es, Spence, Marzo, M endez, & Espada, 2014), and good discriminant validity (Whiteside & Brown, 2008).…”

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Teens that fear screams: A comparison of fear conditioning, extinction, and reinstatement in adolescents and adults

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Newall

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Developmental Psychobiology

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This study investigated differences between adolescents and adults on fear conditioning, extinction, and reinstatement (i.e., the recovery of conditioned fear following re-exposure to the unconditioned stimulus [US] post-extinction). Participants underwent differential conditioning (i.e., the Screaming Lady) where one neutral face (CS+) was followed by the same face expressing fear and a loud scream (US) while another neutral face (CS-) remained neutral. Extinction involved non-reinforced presentations of both CSs, after which participants were reinstated (2xUSs) or not. On two self-report measures, both ages showed conditioning, good extinction learning and retention, and reinstatement-induced relapse. However, only adolescents showed conditioning, extinction, and reinstatement on the eye tracking measure; relapse on this measure could not be assessed in adults given they did not show initial conditioning. Lastly, higher levels of depression predicted stronger conditioning and weaker extinction in adolescents only. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for adolescent anxiety disorders.

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“…In support of the measure's validity, a clinical sample of children diagnosed with various types of anxiety disorders was found to score high on particular sub-scales corresponding to their specific anxiety disorder (Nauta et al, 2004). The full version of the SCAS has demonstrated high internal consistency and its psychometric properties have been established across various populations, for instance, Australian (Spence, 1998), Dutch (Muris, Schmidt, & Merckelbach, 2000), Spanish (Tortella-Feliu, Balle, Servera, & Garc ıa De La Banda, 2005), Hellenic (Mellon & Moutavelis, 2007), German and Japanese (Essau, Sakano, Ishikawa, & Sasagawa, 2004), including a few developing countries, for example, Iran (Essau, Olaya, Pasha, O'Callaghan, & Bray, 2012) and South Africa (Muris, Schmidt, Engelbrecht, & Perold, 2002). Factor analyses across different studies replicated the six factors in the full measure.…”

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Psychometric properties of two measures of childhood internalizing problems in a Bangladeshi sample

Deeba

Rapee

Prvan

2014

British J Clinic Psychol

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Positive clinical implications: These two measures of internalizing distress in young people showed solid psychometric properties within samples collected from various parts of Bangladesh. The measures can therefore be used to assess anxiety and depression in Bangla-speaking youth. These measures should be of value in both clinical settings and at a community level to assess the need for services. Cautions and limitations: Resource limitations did not allow comparison against diagnostic criteria and therefore cut-off scores to indicate clinical status among Bangladeshi youth will require further research.

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The structure of anxiety symptoms among adolescents in Iran: A confirmatory factor analytic study of the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale

Cited by 28 publications

References 52 publications

Preventing Internalizing Problems in 6–8 Year Old Children: A Universal School-Based Program

Preventing Internalizing Problems in 6–8 Year Old Children: A Universal School-Based Program

Teens that fear screams: A comparison of fear conditioning, extinction, and reinstatement in adolescents and adults

Psychometric properties of two measures of childhood internalizing problems in a Bangladeshi sample

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