@article{ref1,
title="Do childhood anxiety measures measure anxiety?",
journal="Journal of abnormal child psychology",
year="1992",
author="Perrin, S. and Last, C. G.",
volume="20",
number="6",
pages="567-578",
abstract="The Fear Survey Schedule for Children-Revised (FSSC-R), Revised-Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS), and the Modified State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC-M) are three widely used self-report measures of childhood anxiety. While previous studies have established the reliability of these measures, their validity in discriminating anxious from non-anxious youngsters remains to be established. The present study examines the discriminant validity of the three measures by comparing clinic referred samples of boys with an anxiety disorder (n = 105) or ADHD (n = 59) with a community sample of never-psychiatrically-ill boys (n = 49). Results indicated that the two patient groups differed significantly from the never-psychiatrically-ill group on the RCMAS and STAIC-M, but the anxious and ADHD groups did not differ from each other. None of the three groups differed on the FSSC-R. The implications of these findings for the assessment of childhood anxiety disorders are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-0627",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}