Centre for Emotional Health, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University.
School of Psychology, The University of Sydney.
Psychol Assess. 2018 Jul;30(7):904-915. doi: 10.1037/pas0000539. Epub 2017 Dec 28.
Recent research has started to examine the applicability of influential adult models of the maintenance of social anxiety disorder (SAD) to youth. This research is limited by the lack of psychometrically validated measures of underlying constructs that are developmentally appropriate for youth. One key construct in adult models of SAD is maladaptive social-evaluative beliefs. The current study aimed to develop and validate a measure of these beliefs in youth, known as the Report of Youth Social Cognitions (RYSC). The RYSC was developed with a clinical sample of youth with anxiety disorders (N = 180) and cross-validated in a community sample of youth (N = 305). In the clinical sample, the RYSC exhibited a 3-factor structure (negative evaluation, revealing self, and positive impression factors), good internal consistency, and construct validity. In the community sample, the 3-factor structure and the internal consistency of the RYSC were replicated, but the test of construct validity showed that the RYSC had similarly strong associations with social anxiety and depressed affect. The RYSC had good test-retest reliability overall, although the revealing self subscale showed lower temporal stability which improved when only older participants were considered (age ≥9 years). The RYSC in general was also shown to discriminate between youth with and without SAD although the revealing self subscale again performed suboptimally but improved when only older participants were considered. These findings provide psychometric support for the RYSC and justifies its use with youth in research and clinical settings requiring the assessment of maladaptive social-evaluative beliefs. (PsycINFO Database Record
最近的研究开始考察将成人维持社交焦虑障碍（SAD）的影响模型应用于青少年的适用性。这项研究受到缺乏适用于青少年的发展适当的潜在结构的心理测量验证措施的限制。成人 SAD 模型中的一个关键结构是适应不良的社交评价信念。目前的研究旨在开发和验证青少年适应不良社交评价信念的衡量标准，称为青少年社会认知报告（RYSC）。RYSC 是在患有焦虑障碍的青少年临床样本（N=180）中开发的，并在社区青少年样本（N=305）中进行了交叉验证。在临床样本中，RYSC 表现出 3 因素结构（负面评价、自我揭示和积极印象因素），具有良好的内部一致性和结构效度。在社区样本中，RYSC 的 3 因素结构和内部一致性得到了复制，但结构效度的检验表明，RYSC 与社交焦虑和抑郁情绪具有同样强烈的关联。RYSC 总体上具有良好的重测信度，尽管自我揭示子量表的时间稳定性较低，当仅考虑年龄较大的参与者（年龄≥9 岁）时，这种稳定性会提高。RYSC 通常也能够区分患有和不患有 SAD 的青少年，尽管自我揭示子量表的表现再次欠佳，但当仅考虑年龄较大的参与者时，其表现会有所改善。这些发现为 RYSC 提供了心理测量支持，并证明了其在需要评估适应不良的社交评价信念的研究和临床环境中用于青少年的合理性。
