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Differences in Parent and Child Report on the Screen for Child Anxiety-Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): implications for investigations of social anxiety in adolescents

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Bowers, Maureen E., Reider, Lori B., Morales, Santiago, Buzzell, George A., Miller, Natalie, Troller-Renfree, Sonya V., Pine, Daniel S., Henderson, Heather A. +1 more·2020·Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

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Social anxiety typically emerges by adolescence and is one of the most common anxiety disorders. Many clinicians and researchers utilize the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED) to quantify anxiety symptoms, including social anxiety, throughout childhood and adolescence. The SCARED can be administered to both children and their parents, though reports from each informant tend to only moderately correlate. Here, we investigated parent-child concordance on the SCARED in a sample of adolescents (N = 360, M age = 13.2) using a multi-trait multi-method (MTMM) model. Next, in a selected sample of the adolescents, we explored relations among child report, parent report, and latent social anxiety scores with two laboratory tasks known to elicit signs of social anxiety in the presence of unfamiliar peers: a speech task and a "Get to Know You" task. Findings reveal differences in variance of the SCARED accounted for by parent and child report. Parent report of social anxiety is a better predictor of anxiety signs elicited by a structured speech task, whereas child report of social anxiety is a better predictor of anxiety signs during the naturalistic conversation with unfamiliar peers. Moreover, while latent social anxiety scores predict both observed anxiety measures, parent report more closely resembles latent scores in relation to the speech task, whereas child report functions more similarly to latent scores in relation to the peer conversation. Thus, while latent scores relate to either observed anxiety measure, parent and child report on the SCARED each provide valuable information that differentially relate to naturalistic social anxiety-related behaviors.

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Bowers, M. E., Reider, L. B., Morales, S., Buzzell, G. A., Miller, N., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Pine, D. S., Henderson, H. A., & Fox, N. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Maryland, College Park (US)
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
  • University of Waterloo (CA)
Corresponding author
Bowers, Maureen E.
Venue
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
Published
2019-12-18
Volume
48
Issue
4
Pages
561-571
ISSN
  • 0091-0627 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-2835
OpenAlex
W2995764770
Cited by
52
References
44
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 1
FWCI
6.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (U01MH093349)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
Keywords
social anxiety, adolescents, SCARED, parent report, child report, speaking tasks, peer conversation, anxiety assessment, naturalistic behavior
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Anxiety Disorders, Child, Child, Preschool, District of Columbia, Emotions, Fear, Female, Humans, Infant, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Mass Screening, Parents, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reproducibility of Results, Observer Variation

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