Hale William W, Raaijmakers Quinten, Muris Peter, Meeus Wim
Department of Child and Adolescent Studies, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2005 Mar;44(3):283-90. doi: 10.1097/00004583-200503000-00013.
This study examined the psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) in a large sample of adolescents from the general population.
In 2001, 1,340 junior high and high school adolescents in the Netherlands completed the SCARED. The SCARED is a questionnaire that purports to measure five child and adolescent anxiety symptom dimensions. The factor structure of the SCARED was investigated by means of confirmatory factor analyses that were conducted for males and females, early (10-13 years) and middle (14-18 years) adolescent groups, and for Dutch and ethnic minorities. Analyses of variance were carried out to compare mean scores for the various groups.
The five-factor structure of the SCARED not only had the best fit for the general adolescent population but also for the age, gender, and ethnic groups. It was also found that the SCARED scores of the adolescent subgroups differed from one another in agreement with previous studies on adolescent anxiety disorder symptoms.
The findings of this study support the claim that the SCARED has a five-factor structure. The usefulness of the SCARED was also demonstrated.
本研究在来自普通人群的大量青少年样本中检验了儿童焦虑相关情绪障碍筛查量表（SCARED）的心理测量特性。
2001年，荷兰1340名初中和高中青少年完成了SCARED量表测试。SCARED是一份旨在测量五个儿童和青少年焦虑症状维度的问卷。通过对男性和女性、早期（10 - 13岁）和中期（14 - 18岁）青少年组以及荷兰人和少数族裔进行验证性因素分析，研究了SCARED的因素结构。进行方差分析以比较不同组的平均得分。
SCARED的五因素结构不仅与普通青少年人群拟合度最佳，而且与年龄、性别和种族群体的拟合度也最佳。还发现青少年亚组之间的SCARED得分彼此不同，这与先前关于青少年焦虑症症状的研究一致。
本研究结果支持SCARED具有五因素结构的说法。同时也证明了SCARED的实用性。
