The Penn State Worry Questionnaire for Children: Age, Gender and Clinical Invariance
| Autor: | Elena Predescu, Roxana Sipos, Anca Dobrean, Viorel Lupu, Costina Ruxandra Păsărelu, Robert Balazsi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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050103 clinical psychology Adolescent Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject Child Behavior Anxiety Sex Factors Surveys and Questionnaires Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Measurement invariance Child media_common 05 social sciences Reproducibility of Results Confirmatory factor analysis Psychiatry and Mental health Convergent validity Adolescent Behavior Scale (social sciences) Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Metric (unit) medicine.symptom Worry Factor Analysis Statistical Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Child Psychiatry & Human Development. 48:359-369 |
| ISSN: | 1573-3327 0009-398X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10578-016-0663-2 |
| Popis: | The Penn State Worry Questionnaire for Children (PSWQ-C) is one of the most frequently used instruments to assess worry in children. The current study examines the measurement invariance of the PSWQ-C in a Romanian sample. Participants (n = 759) were recruited from both community and clinical populations. Our findings have replicated the good psychometric properties of the PSWQ-C and of the short PSWQ-C (the original scale with the negative items deleted). Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis has supported measurement invariance (configural, metric, scalar) across gender, age and clinical diagnosis. Convergent validity with other assessment measures has also been established. Finally, the implications of the use of the PSWQ-C in the assessment of anxiety in children and adolescents are discussed. |
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