title: Psychometric properties of the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale in a Hong Kong Chinese community sample.
abstract: This study evaluated the psychometric properties of a widely used self-report anxiety scale-the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) and the associated parent-report version (PSCAS)-in a Hong Kong Chinese community sample. While good psychometric properties of SCAS and PSCAS had been documented in Western cultural contexts (e.g., Australia), no systematic psychometric evaluation of the Chinese-translated SCAS and PSCAS has been published. In this study, psychometric properties of SCAS and PSCAS were examined with respect to four criteria: (a) factor structure, (b) descriptive statistics, (c) convergent validity with an anxiety cognition measure, and (d) internal consistency. Psychometric properties of SCAS and PSCAS for a Chinese community sample were found to be highly comparable with those published on Australian samples, thus providing a solid conceptual foundation for use of the Chinese version of SCAS and PSCAS.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G5, Canada. johnson.li@ualberta.ca
authors.forename: Johnson Ching-hong
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Wai-yee
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.forename: Terry Kit-fong
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Au
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D044466:Asian People; D002648:Child; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D057566:Self Report; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires