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JOURNAL OF ANXIETY DISORDERS
Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 547-560Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-6185(03)00042-2
Keywords
social phobia; adolescence; SPAI-C; SAS-A; assessment; social anxiety
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH059608] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH59608-02] Funding Source: Medline
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Investigates the construct validity of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C) by comparing its sensitivity and specificity with another self-report measure of social anxiety, the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A). Participants were 252 adolescents (124 males and 128 females) 13-17 years old. Adolescents completed the SPAI-C and the SAS-A and were interviewed using the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV: Child Version (ADIS-IV:C). Parents were also interviewed and composite diagnoses were formed. Youth were classified as socially phobic or non-anxious based on these composite diagnoses. By comparing clinical cutoff scores with diagnostic group classification, the sensitivity and the specificity of the SPAI-C and SAS-A were compared. Results indicated that the SPAI-C was a more sensitive measure than the SAS-A (61.5% vs. 43.6%) providing evidence of the scale's construct validity. The two measures were similar with regard to specificity (82.7% for both). Implications of these results for assessment and research are discussed. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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