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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 4/2016

23-08-2016

The Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Children: Cross-Cultural Assessment with a New Self-Report Measure

Auteurs: Vicente E. Caballo, Isabel C. Salazar, Benito Arias, Marta Calderero, María J. Irurtia, Thomas H. Ollendick, CISO-A Research Team

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment | Uitgave 4/2016

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Abstract

This study describes a series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses that were conducted with the 44-item Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Children- 4th version (SAQ-CIV) to identify a reduced set of items that might be used to construct a new abbreviated instrument for measuring social anxiety in children and adolescents. The fourth version of the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Children (SAQ-CIV) was administered to 12,801 non-clinical participants (ages 9 to 15 years) from 12 Latin American countries and Spain. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis supported a 6-factor structure of social anxiety in children, replicating a similar structure to that of adults (Caballo et al. in Behavioral Psychology/Psicología Conductual, 18(1), 5–34, 2010; Caballo et al. in Behavior Therapy, 43(2), 313–328, 2012): 1) Interactions with the opposite sex, 2) Criticism and embarrassment, 3) Speaking in public/Talking to teachers, 4) Assertive expression of annoyance and disgust, 5) Performing in public, and 6) Interactions with strangers. Each of the factors contains 4 items, yielding an abbreviated 24-item instrument, the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Children (SAQ-C). The present results suggest this is a reliable, valid, and culturally sensitive instrument to assess social anxiety in youth.
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Metagegevens
Titel
The Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Children: Cross-Cultural Assessment with a New Self-Report Measure
Auteurs
Vicente E. Caballo
Isabel C. Salazar
Benito Arias
Marta Calderero
María J. Irurtia
Thomas H. Ollendick
CISO-A Research Team
Publicatiedatum
23-08-2016
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment / Uitgave 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0882-2689
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3505
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-016-9562-x

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