Ishikawa Shin-ichi, Shimotsu Saki, Ono Tetsuya, Sasagawa Satoko, Kondo-Ikemura Kiyomi, Sakano Yuji, Spence Susan H
Faculty of Psychology, Doshisha University, 1-3 Tatara Miyakodani, Kyotanabe City, Kyoto, 610-0394, Japan,
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2014 Jun;45(3):306-17. doi: 10.1007/s10578-013-0401-y.
Using parental reports, the current study investigated anxiety symptoms among Japanese children as part of the process of developing the Japanese version of the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale for Parents (SCAS-P). The participants were 677 parents and children aged 9-12 years. Confirmatory factor analysis on 568 parents and children supported that the SCAS-P had a 6-factor structure. The scale showed satisfactory internal consistency and good convergent validity. A MANOVA indicated no significant gender or age differences except for the obsessive-compulsive disorder subscale. Among Japanese children, the most prevalent symptoms within the parental report were items related to fear of the dark and of insects/spiders. Finally, we observed very low correlations between parental and child reports of anxiety symptoms; the relationships between child and parental reports were rather poor among Japanese children. We briefly discuss the utility of the SCAS-P as a screening instrument assessing parental reports of anxiety symptoms.
本研究利用家长报告，对日本儿童的焦虑症状进行了调查，这是开发日语版斯宾斯儿童焦虑量表家长版（SCAS-P）过程的一部分。参与者为677名9至12岁的家长和儿童。对568名家长和儿童进行的验证性因素分析支持SCAS-P具有六因素结构。该量表显示出令人满意的内部一致性和良好的收敛效度。多变量方差分析表明，除强迫症子量表外，无显著的性别或年龄差异。在日本儿童中，家长报告中最普遍的症状是与怕黑和怕昆虫/蜘蛛相关的项目。最后，我们观察到家长和儿童焦虑症状报告之间的相关性非常低；在日本儿童中，儿童与家长报告之间的关系相当差。我们简要讨论了SCAS-P作为评估家长焦虑症状报告的筛查工具的效用。
