Evaluation of Mother-Child Agreement and Factorial Structures of the SCARED Questionnaire in an Italian Clinical Sample

Frontiers in Psychology

Simona Scaini¹ 

关键词: anxiety;    assessment;    factor analysis;    internalizing disorders;    rating scales;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00242

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background: A great part of the literature has confirmed the importance of both child and parents reports as source of factual information, especially for childhood emotional syndromes. In our study we aimed at: (i) calculating mother-child agreement and (ii) evaluating factorial structure of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) questionnaire in an Italian clinical sample. The novelty of this contribution is two-fold: first, from a clinical point of view, we investigated the parent-child agreement level and examined separately the factorial structures of both parent and child versions of the SCARED for the first time in an Italian clinical sample. Second, unlike previous studies, we used statistical approaches specifically suited to account for the ordinal nature of the collected variables.

【 授权许可】

CC BY