Godoy Antonio, Gavino Aurora, Carrillo Francisco, Cobos María Pilar, Quintero Carolina
Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain.
Psicothema. 2011 Apr;23(2):289-94.
This paper presents the Spanish version of the Spence Children Anxiety Scale (SCAS), a rating scale for children and adolescents assessing anxiety disorders as they appear in the DSM-IV. SCAS scores were subjected to confirmatory factor analyses in a sample of 1671 children 10 to 17 years old. Results supported the proposed structure of six interrelated scales. This structure is completely invariant (except for means) in boys and girls and across age groups. Overall, girls scored slightly higher than boys. The relationship of SCAS scores with the child's age was nonexistent or very low and negative. The least frequent anxiety problems among children and adolescents were panic attacks and agoraphobia. Problems that most frequently presented extreme high scores were obsessive-compulsive disorder and social phobia. It is concluded that the Spanish version of the SCAS can confidently be used in the assessment of anxiety disorders in children.
本文介绍了斯宾斯儿童焦虑量表（SCAS）的西班牙语版本，这是一种用于儿童和青少年的评定量表，用于评估《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》第四版（DSM-IV）中出现的焦虑症。对1671名10至17岁儿童的样本进行了SCAS评分的验证性因素分析。结果支持了所提出的六个相互关联量表的结构。这种结构在男孩和女孩以及不同年龄组中是完全不变的（除了均值）。总体而言，女孩的得分略高于男孩。SCAS得分与儿童年龄之间不存在或存在非常低的负相关关系。儿童和青少年中最不常见的焦虑问题是惊恐发作和广场恐惧症。最常出现极高分数的问题是强迫症和社交恐惧症。得出的结论是，SCAS的西班牙语版本可放心用于评估儿童的焦虑症。
