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The psychometric properties of the MASC in a pediatric psychiatric sample
Abstract
The goals of this study were twofold: to examine the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC) in a clinical sample of 193 children and adolescents who had received a diagnosis of major depressive or anxiety disorder, and to discriminate between these two groups of patients. Participants had volunteered in randomized psychopharmacological clinical trials. The MASC four-factor structure was confirmed and its subscales were found to be reliable. The MASC correlated well with other self-report measures of anxiety, and less so with measures of depressive symptoms. The MASC subscales and two MASC items as well as age differentiated between anxious and depressed pediatric patients. If these results are replicated in an independent study, those items could be used by clinicians to discriminate between these two disorders. The MASC is a clinically useful measure to discriminate between anxious and depressed pediatric patients. Limitations due to the highly selective sample are noted.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rynn, M. A., Barber, J. P., Khalid-Khan, S., Siqueland, L., Dembiski, M., McCarthy, K. S., & Gallop, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Rynn, Moira A.
- Venue
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 139-157
- ISSN
- 0887-6185 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1999250872
- Cited by
- 138
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Pennsylvania
- National Institutes of Health (5k23mh001819-05)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH 61410, K23 MH 01819, R01MH061410)
- 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
- Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children, MASC, anxiety disorders, major depressive disorder, children and adolescents, psychometric properties, factor structure, reliability statistics, discriminant validity
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Anxiety Disorders, Child, Depressive Disorder, Major, Major Depressive Disorder, Diagnosis, Differential, Double-Blind Method, Female, Humans, Male, Personality Assessment, Personality Inventory, Reproducibility of Results, Logistic Models
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