A Psychometric Analysis of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale-Parent Version in a Clinical Sample

Autor/inn/en	Ebesutani, Chad; Bernstein, Adam; Nakamura, Brad J.; Chorpita, Bruce F.; Weisz, John R.
Titel	A Psychometric Analysis of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale-Parent Version in a Clinical Sample
Quelle	In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 38 (2010) 2, S.249-260 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-0627
DOI	10.1007/s10802-009-9363-8
Schlagwörter	Validity; Measures (Individuals); Psychometrics; Depression (Psychology); Separation Anxiety; Questionnaires; Mental Disorders; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Classification; Goodness of Fit; Factor Structure; Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gültigkeit; Messdaten; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Trennungsangst; Fragebogen; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Faktorenstruktur; Child; Kind; Kinder
Abstract	The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale-Parent Version (RCADS-P) is a 47-item parent-report questionnaire of youth anxiety and depression, with scales corresponding to the DSM-IV categories of Separation Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). The RCADS-P is currently the only parent-report questionnaire that concurrently assesses youth symptomatology of individual anxiety disorders as well as depression in accordance with DSM-IV nosology. The present study examined the psychometric properties of the RCADS-P in a large (N = 490), clinic-referred sample of youths. The RCADS-P demonstrated favorable psychometric properties, including high internal consistency, convergent/divergent validity, as well as strong discriminant validity--evidencing an ability to discriminate between anxiety and depressive disorders, as well as between the targeted anxiety disorders. Support for the DSM-related six-factor RCADS-P structure was also evidenced. This structure demonstrated superior fit to a recently suggested alternative to the DSM-IV classification of anxiety and affective disorders--namely, the MDD/GAD "distress" factor. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10