Muris Peter, Schmidt Henk, Engelbrecht Petra, Perold Mariechen
Department of Medical, Clinical, and Experimental Psychology, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2002 Nov;41(11):1360-8. doi: 10.1097/00004583-200211000-00018.
To examine -defined anxiety disorder symptoms in a large sample of normal South African schoolchildren.
Children completed two self-report questionnaires: the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) and the 41-item version of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED).
Psychometric properties of the SCAS and the SCARED were moderate (convergent validity) to sufficient (reliability). Factor analyses yielded evidence for the presence of a number of hypothesized anxiety categories (i.e., social phobia, panic disorder, fears, and generalized anxiety disorder). Furthermore, anxiety levels of South African children were higher than those of Western (i.e., Dutch) children. Differences were found with regard to the content of prevalent anxiety symptoms among South African and Western children.
Although psychometric properties of the SCAS and the SCARED in South African children somewhat deviated from those obtained in Western countries, both scales seem to be useful for assessing childhood anxiety symptoms in this country.
在大量南非正常学童样本中检查特定的焦虑症症状。
儿童完成两份自我报告问卷：斯宾斯儿童焦虑量表（SCAS）和儿童焦虑相关情绪障碍筛查量表41项版（SCARED）。
SCAS和SCARED的心理测量特性为中等（收敛效度）到充分（信度）。因子分析为多种假设的焦虑类别（即社交恐惧症、惊恐障碍、恐惧和广泛性焦虑症）的存在提供了证据。此外，南非儿童的焦虑水平高于西方（即荷兰）儿童。在南非和西方儿童中普遍存在的焦虑症状内容方面发现了差异。
尽管SCAS和SCARED在南非儿童中的心理测量特性与在西方国家获得的特性略有偏差，但这两个量表似乎都有助于评估该国儿童的焦虑症状。
