Social anxiety across ethnicity: a confirmatory factor analysis of the FNE and SAD.

Autor: Melka SE; Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL 62901, United States., Lancaster SL, Adams LJ, Howarth EA, Rodriguez BF
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of anxiety disorders [J Anxiety Disord] 2010 Oct; Vol. 24 (7), pp. 680-5. Date of Electronic Publication: 2010 Apr 29.
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.04.011
Abstrakt: Previous research has established that social anxiety occurs at different rates in African American and European American populations (Grant et al., 2005), while psychometric investigations of widely used measures of psychopathology show differences in factor structure based on ethnic background (Carter, Miller, Sbrocco, Suchday, & Lewis, 1999; Chapman, Williams, Mast, & Woodruff-Borden, 2009). The current study examined response characteristics of 1276 African American and European American undergraduates completing the Fear of Negative Evaluation and Social Avoidance and Distress Scales (Watson & Friend, 1969). Confirmatory factor analyses failed to demonstrate factorial invariance in the two ethnic samples, and Wald tests suggested several items on both measures be dropped for African Americans. Results suggest the FNE and SAD operate differently across ethnic groups. Implications for the cross-cultural measurement of social anxiety and the importance of continued rigorous psychometric inquiry of commonly used measures are discussed.
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