The revised version of the screen for child anxiety related emotional disorders (scared-r): Further evidence for its reliability and validity
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Abstract The revised version of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED-R) is a self-report questionnaire that intends to measure symptoms of childhood anxiety disorders as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM; American Psychiatric Association, 1994). The current article presents three studies which examined in more detail the reliability and validity of the SCARED-R. Study 1 (N=101) demonstrated that the SCARED-R possesses satisfactory test-retest stability. Study 2 (N=71) shows that the child-parent agreement of the SCARED-R is rather low. Study 3 (N=88) provides support for the concurrent validity of the SCARED-R. More specifically, SCARED-R scores were correlated in a meaningful way with scores on the Children's Anxiety Scale, a questionnaire that also measures DSM-defined childhood anxiety symptoms.
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The SCARED-R has good internal consistency, satisfactory test-retest reliability, and discriminates well between anxiety problems and other behavioral problems.
“The SCARED-R possesses good internal consistency for total and subscales scores (Muris et al. 2004; Muris et al. 2001; Muris et al. 1999b), satisfactory test–retest reliability (Muris et al. 1999) and discriminates well between anxiety problems and other behavioral problems (Muris et al. 2004).”
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“The SCARED-R possesses good internal consistency for total and subscales scores (Muris et al. 2004; Muris et al. 2001; Muris et al. 1999b), satisfactory test–retest reliability (Muris et al. 1999) and discriminates well between anxiety problems and other behavioral problems (Muris et al. 2004).”
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- Authors
- Muris, P., Merckelbach, H., Van Brakel, A., & Mayer, A. B.
- Venue
- Anxiety, Stress & Coping
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1999-01
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 411-425
- ISSN
- 1061-5806 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-2205
- OpenAlex
- W2088142541
- Cited by
- 142
- References
- 5
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- FWCI
- 5.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- Anxiety Stress & Coping (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- SCARED, childhood anxiety disorders, self-report questionnaire, test-retest reliability, parent-child agreement, concurrent validity
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