Psychometric properties of the Youth Anxiety Measure for DSM-5, Part I (YAM-5-I) in a community sample of Spanish-speaking adolescents.
Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders in adolescence. There is a need for brief screening tools to identify adolescents at risk for anxiety disorders. The Youth Anxiety Measure for DSM-5 has been recently developed to assess youths' anxiety symptoms in terms of the current classification system. The goal of this study is to provide a first test of its psychometric properties in a community sample of adolescents in Spain.



The sample consisted of 505 13- to 17-year-old adolescents who completed Part I of the YAM-5 (YAM-5-I), which measures symptoms of the major anxiety disorders.



Data indicated that the YAM-5-I displays appropriate internal consistency reliability. In addition, support was also found for the construct validity of the measure: most items loaded on a factor that represented the hypothesized anxiety syndromes, although it should also be noted that some items exhibited issues and therefore had to be discarded.



Cross-cultural and trans-national studies are needed to determine psychometric properties of scale across languages and cultures.



Our findings suggest that the YAM-5-I has satisfactory psychometric properties, which indicates that it can be used as a screening tool in Spanish-speaking adolescents from the general population.
Department of Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology, Universidad de Jaen, Jaen, Spain. Electronic address: ljgarcia@ujaen.es.
Luis-Joaquin
LJ
Garcia-Lopez
Department of Statistics and Operational Research, Universidad de Jaen, Linares, Spain.
Antonio J
AJ
Saez-Castillo
Department of Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology, Universidad de Jaen, Jaen, Spain.
Gema
G
Fuentes-Rodriguez
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors; D013030:Spain
Adolescence; Anxiety disorders symptoms; Assessment; Youth Anxiety Measure for DSM-5