Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10447631 | Journal of Anxiety Disorders | 2013 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Persian translation of the Screen for Child Anxiety-Related Emotional Disorders-child version (SCARED-C) in a community sample of 557 children, aged 9-13 years, in the city of Isfahan, Iran. In addition to the SCARED-C, all the participants completed the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) and the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI). The SCARED-C demonstrated moderate to high internal consistency (alpha = 0.59-0.80) and good convergent and divergent validity. The one-factor and the five-factor model of the SCARED-C fitted the data moderately. However, the five-factor model had a significantly better fit than the one-factor model (ÎÏ2 = 287.346, df = 10, P < .001). These findings showed that SCARED-C can be used as a reliable and valid measure of anxiety symptoms among children in Iran.
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Authors
Fahimeh Dehghani, Shole Amiri, Hossein Molavi, Hamid Taher Neshat-Doost,