Fernández-Sogorb Aitana, Inglés Cándido J, Sanmartín Ricardo, Gonzálvez Carolina, Vicent María, García-Fernández Y José Manuel
University of Alicante, Spain.
Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Spain.
Int J Clin Health Psychol. 2018 Sep-Dec;18(3):264-272. doi: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2018.07.002. Epub 2018 Aug 22.
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: This paper aimed to validate the Spanish version of scores of the Visual Analogue Scale for Anxiety-Revised (VAA-R) in child population, and to verify the existence of anxiety profiles and to relate them to school refusal.
The sample was made up of 911 Spanish students between 8 and 12 years old ( = 9.61, = 1.23). The measures used were the VAA-R and the School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised for Children (SRAS-R-C).
Confirmatory factorial analysis supported the three-dimensional VAA-R structure: Anticipatory Anxiety (AA), School-based performance Anxiety (SA) and Generalized Anxiety (GA). The VAA-R has an adequate reliability and structural invariance across sex and age. No latent mean differences were found across sex, but did occur through age in AA and GA factors. Cluster analysis identified four child anxiety profiles: High Anxiety, High Anxiety School-type, Low Anxiety, and Moderate Anxiety, which differed significantly in all dimensions of school refusal.
These findings may be useful for the assessment and treatment of anxious symptoms originated at school.
背景/目的：本文旨在验证儿童群体中焦虑视觉模拟量表修订版（VAA-R）西班牙语版本的评分，验证焦虑特征的存在，并将其与学校拒学相关联。
样本由911名8至12岁的西班牙学生组成（平均年龄 = 9.61岁，标准差 = 1.23岁）。所使用的测量工具为VAA-R和儿童学校拒学评估量表修订版（SRAS-R-C）。
验证性因素分析支持VAA-R的三维结构：预期焦虑（AA）、基于学校表现的焦虑（SA）和广泛性焦虑（GA）。VAA-R在性别和年龄方面具有足够的信度和结构不变性。未发现性别间潜在均值差异，但在AA和GA因素中随年龄出现了差异。聚类分析确定了四种儿童焦虑特征：高度焦虑、高度学校型焦虑、低度焦虑和中度焦虑，这些特征在学校拒学的所有维度上均有显著差异。
这些发现可能有助于评估和治疗源于学校的焦虑症状。
