A Escala Multidimensional de Ansiedade para Crianças (MASC): Propriedades psicométricas e análise fatorial confirmatória numa amostra de adolescentes portugueses

Salvador, Maria do Céu; Matos, Ana Paula; Oliveira, Sara Marchesan; March, John S.; Arnarson, Eiríkur Örn; Carey, Sean C.; Craighead, W. Edward

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“…The children also completed the Portuguese version of Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC), which examines the symptoms of anxiety in children and adolescents ages 7 to 19 years. It contains 39 questions, with four-point Likert scale responses (March et al, 1997; Matos et al, 2012; Salvador et al, 2017). Items on this questionnaire are grouped into four factors: (a) Physical symptoms, (b) Social anxiety, (c) Separation anxiety, and (d) Harm avoidance (Wei et al, 2014).…”

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“…Decades of research confirm the robust features of the MASC. Several studies with general populations and with clinical populations have supported scale’s internal consistency, temporal stability, and convergent validity (Salvador et al, 2017). The original English version demonstrated good internal consistency (between 0.60 and 0.90), strong convergent/divergent validity, and strong test–retest reliability (March et al, 1997).…”

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“…The original English version demonstrated good internal consistency (between 0.60 and 0.90), strong convergent/divergent validity, and strong test–retest reliability (March et al, 1997). The Portuguese version of the MASC has also been shown to be an adequate and reliable measure for self-assessment of anxious symptomatology, presenting reasonable psychometric characteristics in internal consistency, temporal stability, and validity (Salvador et al, 2017).…”

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Temperament, Executive Functioning, and Anxiety in School-Age Children Who Stutter

2019

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The purpose of this study was to examine temperament dimensions, executive functioning ability, and anxiety levels in school-age children who stutter and their non-stuttering peers. Participants were 100 Portuguese children aged 7 to 12 years (M = 9.13; SD = 1.70), including 50 children who stutter and 50 children who do not stutter. Analyses, which were performed separately for younger and older participants, sought to identify correlations between key variables. Temperament was evaluated through a parent questionnaire, executive functioning was evaluated through children’s responses on a performance test, and anxiety level was assessed through a self-perception scale. On the temperament measure, comparisons between children who stutter and their non-stuttering peers revealed that older children who stutter exhibited significantly higher scores on the Anger/Frustration, Impulsivity, and Sadness subscales, and lower averages on the Attention/Focusing, Perceptual sensitivity, and Soothability/Falling Reactivity subscales. On the executive functioning task, comparisons revealed that the group of younger children who stutter exhibited significantly higher average execution times than their non-stuttering peers. There were no statistically significant differences in anxiety between children who stutter and children who do not stutter, and there were no statistically significant correlations between temperament factors and measures of executive functioning. Children who stutter experienced lower ability to orient attention and greater emotional reactivity compared with their non-stuttering peers. Significant correlations were found between executive functioning and age and among the temperament factors themselves. These results, which support the need for a multidimensional view of stuttering, were interpreted in the context of the Dual Diathesis – Stressor model. Findings indicate that temperament and executive functioning abilities may contribute to the development of stuttering.

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Temperament, Executive Functioning, and Anxiety in School-Age Children Who Stutter

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“…The Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC; Salvador et al, 2017), which was used in the Portuguese sample, is a self-report questionnaire assessing the dimensions of anxiety in children and adolescents aged 8-19 years. It consists of 39 items measuring four dimensions: Physical symptoms, Harm avoidance, Social anxiety, and Separation anxiety.…”

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The Association Between the 5Cs and Anxiety—Insights From Three Countries: Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain

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Several of the most frequent psychological difficulties in childhood and adolescence are related to anxiety and lead to numerous short- and long-term negative outcomes in emotional, social, and academic domains. Empirical evidence consistently shows that the 5Cs (competence, caring, confidence, connection, and character) of Positive Youth Development (PYD) are positively related to adolescents’ contribution to self, family, and society as well as negatively related to risky behaviors and emotional difficulties, such as anxiety. Thus, the PYD can be one of the models that informs prevention programs. To provide contextualized, data-driven support for prevention efforts, we have analyzed the predictive value of the 5Cs for anxiety and anxiety dimensions using three different convenience youth samples from Portugal (N = 384, 46.6% female), Slovenia (N = 449, 69% females), and Spain (N = 768; 60.5% females). To assess the 5Cs, we used the same short form of the PYD scale in all samples (Geldhof et al., 2013) and different anxiety measures across samples: the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC) in Portugal, the Lestvica anksioznosti za otroke in mladostnike anxiety scale (LAOM) in Slovenia and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) in Spain. The findings show significant associations of PYD and anxiety across all three contexts with all three different anxiety measures used. The associations vary across countries emphasizing the need to further research the role of contexts in anxiety prevention. Despite variations the results do indicate that connection is negatively associated with anxiety in all three contexts using the three anxiety measures, while confidence is a negative predictor and caring is a positive predictor of anxiety in Slovenia and Spain. Implications for practice within an educational framework for adolescents and youth are discussed, together with public policy recommendations.

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“…All questionnaires were completed in a classroom setting under the supervision of a researcher. The MASC's internal consistency measured by Cronbach's alpha was .89 (Salvador et al, 2017). The same version of the Portuguese MASC was administered in the same setting to similarly aged Portuguese adolescents in the current study.…”

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Prevention of Initial Depressive Disorders Among at-Risk Portuguese Adolescents

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developmentally based behavioral and cognitive program that prevented the initial episode of depressive disorders among Icelandic adolescents could be adapted to prevent depressive disorders among "at-risk" Portuguese adolescents. One hundred sixty-eight Portuguese midadolescents (primarily 14 to 15 years old), who had subsyndromal symptoms of depression but who had never met criteria for a depressive disorder, were identified by classroom screening with the CDI and subsequent K-SADS-PL interview. All 168 adolescents were offered participation in the 14-week prevention program; 70 agreed to participate in the program, and 98 agreed to participate only in an assessment control group. Psychological disorders were evaluated at baseline, 6-, 12-, 18-, and 24-month assessments. During the 2-year follow-up period, 12 students in the assessment-only group experienced an initial depressive disorder versus 2 in the prevention group. Survival analyses indicated a significantly lower rate of initial episodes of depressive disorders, χ 2 (1) = 4.261, p = .039, among the prevention group participants compared to the assessment only comparison group. The hazard ratio was .207, and the NNT was 11. Survival analyses indicated no significant differences between the prevention condition and the assessment only condition in the occurrence of other psychiatric disorders, χ2(1) = 1.080, p = .299. The findings indicate the program can be successfully adapted for use in Portuguese schools, and they provide a preliminary indication that those "at-risk" adolescents who chose to participate in the program, compared to those who chose to participate only in the assessments, developed fewer initial episodes of depressive disorders over the course of 24 months. The program effects were similar to the outcomes of the prior study of this program in Iceland. As in the Icelandic version of the program, its effects appeared to be specific to the depressive disorders for which the program was designed.

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A Escala Multidimensional de Ansiedade para Crianças (MASC): Propriedades psicométricas e análise fatorial confirmatória numa amostra de adolescentes portugueses

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

Temperament, Executive Functioning, and Anxiety in School-Age Children Who Stutter

Temperament, Executive Functioning, and Anxiety in School-Age Children Who Stutter

The Association Between the 5Cs and Anxiety—Insights From Three Countries: Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain

Prevention of Initial Depressive Disorders Among at-Risk Portuguese Adolescents

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