title: Assessing anxiety in youth with the multidimensional anxiety scale for children.
abstract: The present study examined the psychometric properties, including discriminant validity and clinical utility, of the youth self-report and parent-report forms of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC) among youth with anxiety disorders. The sample included parents and youth (N = 488, 49.6% male) ages 7 to 17 who participated in the Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study. Although the typical low agreement between parent and youth self-reports was found, the MASC evidenced good internal reliability across MASC subscales and informants. The main MASC subscales (i.e., Physical Symptoms, Harm Avoidance, Social Anxiety, and Separation/Panic) were examined. The Social Anxiety and Separation/Panic subscales were found to be significantly predictive of the presence and severity of social phobia and separation anxiety disorder, respectively. Using multiple informants improved the accuracy of prediction. The MASC subscales demonstrated good psychometric properties and clinical utilities in identifying youth with anxiety disorders.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , Temple University.
authors.forename: Chiaying
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hoff
authors.forename: Marianne A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Villabø
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peterman
authors.forename: Philip C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Kendall
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Piacentini
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McCracken
authors.forename: John T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Walkup
authors.forename: Anne Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Albano
authors.forename: Moira
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rynn
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sherrill
authors.forename: Dara
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sakolsky
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Birmaher
authors.forename: Golda
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ginsburg
authors.forename: Courtney
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Keeton
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gosch
authors.forename: Scott N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Compton
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: March
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057566:Self Report