title: Assessment of anxiety symptoms in school children: a cross-sex and ethnic examination.
abstract: We evaluated the cross-sex and -ethnic (Hispanic/Latino, non-Hispanic White) measurement invariance of anxiety symptoms based on the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) as well as SCAS anxiety symptoms' correspondence with scores on the 5-item Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) and teacher ratings of child anxiety. Based on data corresponding to 702 children (M age = 9.65, SD = 0.70; 51.9 % girls; 55 % Hispanic/Latino), findings showed some sex and ethnic variations in SCAS measured anxiety at the item and scale levels. Moreover, SCAS correspondence to the 5-item SCARED was found across ethnicity and sex. SCAS correspondence to teacher ratings was found for non-Hispanic White boys and non-Hispanic White girls, marginally in Hispanic/Latino boys, and poorly in Hispanic/Latino girls.
authors.affiliation: Prevention Research Center, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871104, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA.
authors.forename: Lindsay E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Holly
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Little
authors.forename: Armando A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Pina
authors.forename: Linda C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Caterino
mesh_terms: D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D001010:Anxiety, Separation / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D005239:Fear / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D012572:School Health Services; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D044465:White People / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology