Validation of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C) in a sample of Brazilian children

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

G.j.c. Gauer²  P. Picon²  S.j.l. Vasconcellos²  S.m. Turner¹  D.c. Beidel¹ 

[1] ,Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul Departamento de Psiquiatria Porto Alegre RS ,Brasil

关键词: Social assessment;    Social phobia;    Social anxiety;    Test reliability;    Test validity;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-879X2005000500019

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of the present study was to examine the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C), an instrument developed in the United States and applied to a sample of Brazilian schoolchildren. The process included the translation of the original material from English into Portuguese by two bilingual psychiatrists and a back translation by a bilingual physician. Both the front and back translations were revised by a bilingual child psychiatrist. The study was performed using a cross-sectional design and the Portuguese version of the SPAI-C was applied to a sample of 1954 children enrolled in 3rd to 8th grade attending 2 private and 11 public schools. Eighty-one subjects were excluded due to an incomplete questionnaire and 2 children refused to participate. The final sample consisted of 1871 children, 938 girls (50.1%) and 933 boys (49.8%), ranging in age from 9 to 14 years. The majority of the students were Caucasian (89.0%) and the remainder were African-Brazilian (11.0%). The Pearson product-moment correlation showed that the two-week test-retest reliability coefficient was r = 0.780 and Cronbach's alpha was 0.946. The factor structure was almost similar to that reported in previous studies. The results regarding the internal consistency, the test-retest reliability and the factor structure were similar to the findings obtained in studies performed on English speaking children. The present study showed that the Portuguese language version of SPAI-C is a reliable and valid measure of social anxiety for Brazilian children.

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