Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Oslo, Norway.
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2012;41(1):75-85. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2012.632350.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the psychometrics and clinical efficiency of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC), which measures physical symptoms, harm avoidance, social anxiety, and separation/panic. Using a sample of 190 treatment-seeking Norwegian youth (aged 7-13 years, M (age) = 10.3 years, 62.1% male), the internal stability and ability to predict to disorder were examined for child, mother, and father reports on the MASC. Moderate to strong internal reliability was exhibited across all MASC subscales. Parent-child agreement was low, but mother-father agreement was high. MASC scores successfully distinguished between children with and without anxiety disorders and identified youth with separation anxiety disorder and social phobia, but less accurately generalized anxiety disorders. The MASC has favorable psychometric properties and is a useful screening instrument for identifying youth with anxiety disorders.
本研究旨在评估多维儿童焦虑量表（MASC）的心理测量学和临床效能，该量表测量身体症状、回避伤害、社交焦虑和分离/惊恐。使用 190 名寻求治疗的挪威青少年（年龄 7-13 岁，M（年龄）=10.3 岁，62.1%为男性）的样本，对儿童、母亲和父亲在 MASC 上的报告进行了内部稳定性和预测障碍的能力检验。所有 MASC 分量表均表现出中等至强的内部可靠性。父母与子女的一致性较低，但母亲与父亲的一致性较高。MASC 分数成功地区分了有和没有焦虑障碍的儿童，并识别出患有分离焦虑障碍和社交恐惧症的青少年，但对广泛性焦虑障碍的识别准确性较低。MASC 具有良好的心理测量学特性，是识别焦虑障碍青少年的有用筛查工具。
