Reliability and validity of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale in a French-Canadian sample.
The aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of a French version of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS). A sample of 2,666 school-age French-Canadian children completed the questionnaire. With regard to factor structure, the 5-factor model found in U.S. normative samples was confirmed. The internal consistency of the 5 scales and of the 2 global scales was good to excellent. Test-retest reliabilities after a 6-month period were also similar to those of the original version. Finally, the concurrent validity, assessed by a correlation with the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children, was also found to be good. Results of the present study show that the French version of the RCMAS is a good instrument to assess anxiety in children.
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and Fernand-Seguin Research Center, Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. lyse.turgeon@crfs.umontreal.ca
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D000293:Adolescent; D017677:Age Distribution; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D008192:Deception; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000592:standards*; D011792:Quebec; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D017678:Sex Distribution