title: A self-report questionnaire for measuring separation anxiety in adulthood.
abstract: Little attention has been given to measuring symptoms of separation anxiety (SA) in adulthood. The development of an Adult Separation Anxiety Questionnaire (ASA-27) is described and compared to a previously derived Adult Separation Anxiety Semistructured Interview (ASA-SI). Principal components analysis revealed a coherent construct of SA with high internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha =.95) and sound test-retest reliability (r =.86; P <.001). A receiver operation characteristic (ROC) analysis against the semistructured interview yielded a high area under the curve index (AUC = 0.9) suggesting that the questionnaire is an adequate alternative measure of SA. Results of this study support previous research suggesting that a construct of SA may be readily measured in adults.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales at Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Manicavasagar
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Silove
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Drobny
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001010:Anxiety, Separation / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009517:New South Wales; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012372:ROC Curve; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires