title: Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the screen for child anxiety-related emotional disorders (SCARED).
abstract: The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Persian translation of the Screen for Child Anxiety-Related Emotional Disorders-child version (SCARED-C) in a community sample of 557 children, aged 9-13 years, in the city of Isfahan, Iran. In addition to the SCARED-C, all the participants completed the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) and the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI). The SCARED-C demonstrated moderate to high internal consistency (alpha=0.59-0.80) and good convergent and divergent validity. The one-factor and the five-factor model of the SCARED-C fitted the data moderately. However, the five-factor model had a significantly better fit than the one-factor model (Δχ(2)=287.346, df=10, P<.001). These findings showed that SCARED-C can be used as a reliable and valid measure of anxiety symptoms among children in Iran.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran. fahimeh_dehghani@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Fahimeh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dehghani
authors.forename: Shole
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Amiri
authors.forename: Hossein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Molavi
authors.forename: Hamid Taher
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Neshat-Doost
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
keywords: Anxiety; Children; Depression; Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders