@article{ref1,
title="Assessment of anxiety symptoms in school children: a cross-sex and ethnic examination",
journal="Journal of abnormal child psychology",
year="2014",
author="Holly, Lindsay E. and Little, Michelle and Pina, Armando A. and Caterino, Linda C.",
volume="43",
number="2",
pages="297-309",
abstract="We evaluated the cross-sex and -ethnic (Hispanic/Latino, non-Hispanic White) measurement invariance of anxiety symptoms based on the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) as well as SCAS anxiety symptoms' correspondence with scores on the 5-item Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) and teacher ratings of child anxiety. Based on data corresponding to 702 children (M age = 9.65, SD = 0.70; 51.9 % girls; 55 % Hispanic/Latino), findings showed some sex and ethnic variations in SCAS measured anxiety at the item and scale levels. Moreover, SCAS correspondence to the 5-item SCARED was found across ethnicity and sex. SCAS correspondence to teacher ratings was found for non-Hispanic White boys and non-Hispanic White girls, marginally in Hispanic/Latino boys, and poorly in Hispanic/Latino girls.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-0627",
doi="10.1007/s10802-014-9907-4",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-014-9907-4"
}