Reexamination of the MASC factor structure and discriminant ability in a mixed clinical outpatient sample

Grills‐Taquechel, Amie E.; Ollendick, Thomas H.; Fisak, Brian

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“…This instrument provides reliable and valid assessments of anxiety symptoms, discriminates between important anxiety symptoms, and is sensitive to treatment-induced changes in symptoms [23]. Acceptable reliability and validity have been shown in epidemiological, school, and clinical samples [23][24][25]. Internal consistency was adequate in this study: MASC Total (a = .93), Physical Symptoms (a = .93), Harm Avoidance (a = .85), Social Anxiety (a = .87), and Separation Anxiety (a = .71).…”

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Primary Versus Secondary Diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Youth: Is the Distinction an Important One?

Ollendick

Jarrett

White

et al. 2015

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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Examine whether children with a primary diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) differ from children with a secondary diagnosis of GAD on clinician, parent, teacher, and youth-report measures. Based on consensus diagnoses, 64 youth referred to a general outpatient assessment clinic were categorized as having either a primary or secondary diagnosis of GAD. A semi-structured diagnostic interview was used to guide diagnostic decisions and assign primary versus secondary diagnostic status. We predicted that youth with a primary GAD diagnosis would present with greater anxiety symptomatology and symptom impairment on a variety of anxiety-related measures than youth with a secondary GAD diagnosis. Contrary to our hypotheses, no differences were found between those with primary versus secondary GAD diagnoses on measures of symptom severity and clinical impairment, comorbid diagnoses, or youth and teacher-report measures. Our findings have potential implications for the current practice of requiring primary anxiety diagnostic status as an inclusion criterion in clinical research and treatment outcome studies. Assuming our findings are confirmed in larger samples and with other anxiety disorders, future clinical trials and basic psychopathology research might not exclude youth based on absence of a particular anxiety disorder as the primary disorder but rather include individuals for whom that anxiety disorder is secondary as well.

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Primary Versus Secondary Diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Youth: Is the Distinction an Important One?

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White

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“…The four-factor structure of the MASC has been consistently supported in both community and clinical samples in the United States [13][14][15][16], as well as in Icelandic schoolchildren [17], Swedish adolescents [18], Australian children [9], and South African adolescents [19]. Meanwhile, research found that the MASC has good test-retest reliability [15], internal consistency [10,[14][15][16], convergent validity [16,20], and discriminant validity [16,21].…”

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“…Second, the study of Yao and colleagues [23] did not examine the psychometrics of the MASC in Chinese adolescents below the age of 14 years. Third, to date, only a few studies have explored the discriminant validity of the MASC and the results are inconsistent [13]. For instance, March [12] and Rynn et al [16] reported good discriminant ability, whereas van Gastel and Ferdinand [25] reported more variable findings.…”

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Factor Structure, Reliability and Validity of the Taiwanese Version of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children

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Yang

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The aims of this study were to examine the factor structure, internal consistency 1 month test-retest reliability and the discriminant validity for the diagnosis of anxiety disorder of the Taiwanese version of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC-T). A total of 12,536 Taiwanese children and adolescents in the community were recruited to examine the adequacy of the original four-factor structure of the MASC-T by confirmatory factor analysis and the internal-consistency reliability by Cronbach's alpha across gender and age. The 1 month test-retest reliability was examined using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) in 105 children and adolescents in the community. The discriminant validity of the MASC-T for the diagnosis of anxiety disorder was examined in 132 children and adolescents from clinical units. The results of this study supported the four-factor structure of the MASC-T in Taiwanese children and adolescents and the four-factor structure was invariant across gender and age. The 1 month test-retest reliability of the MASC-T was in the satisfactory to excellent range and the internal consistency reliability of the Physical Symptoms, Harm Avoidance, and Social Anxiety scales was acceptable. The discriminant validity of the total MASC-T and the anxiety disorder index for the diagnosis of any anxiety disorder was also confirmed. These results indicate that the MASC-T is appropriate for assessing anxiety in Taiwanese children and adolescents.

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“…Vários estudos com populações gerais e com populações clínicas apoiaram a sua consistência interna, estabilidade temporal e validade convergente (GrillsTaquechel, Ollendick, & Fisak, 2008;Kingery, Ginsburg, & Burstein, 2009;March et al, 1997;Ólason, Sighvatsson, & Smári, 2004;Rynn et al, 2006;Villabø, Gere, Torgersen, March, & Kendall, 2012), pelo que a MASC representou um avanço na avaliação da ansiedade em crianças e adolescentes, pela sua estrutura fatorial hierárquica e forte validade divergente e discriminante. Nomeadamente, a forte validade divergente da MASC ofereceu uma vantagem significativa na avaliação da ansiedade infantil na prática clínica, ao discriminar entre construtos diagnósticos.…”

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

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Matos²,

Oliveira³

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ResumoFoi realizado um estudo psicométrico da versão Portuguesa da Escala Multidimensional de Ansiedade para Crianças (MASC), utilizando uma amostra de 2.041 adolescentes, entre os 12 e os 18, recolhida em contexto escolar. Uma vez que a análise fatorial confirmatória não replicou a estrutura original de quatro fatores (March, Parker, Sullivan, Stallings, & Conners, 1997), foi levada a cabo uma análise fatorial confirmatória, com um fator de 3ª ordem (com subfatores, fatores e total), que revelou melhores índices de ajustamento, sendo a diferença entre os modelos estatisticamente significativa. Após realização de uma análise multigrupos, esta estrutura revelou-se invariante para o género, enquanto que apenas foi encontrada invariância configural e métrica para a idade. A validade convergente e divergente foi confirmada, usando medidas de ansiedade, bem-estar e depressão. Verificou-se uma estabilidade moderada a elevada, relativa a um intervalo de 3 semanas. Este estudo confirmou que a versão Portuguesa da MASC é um instrumento de autorresposta fidedigno e útil para avaliar ansiedade em adolescentes. Palavras-chave: avaliação, ansiedade, MASC, propriedades psicométricas, adolescentes AbstractA psychometric analysis of a Portuguese version of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC) was undertaken in a school-based sample of 2041 Portuguese adolescents aged 12-18 years. A confirmatory factor analysis did not support the original four-factor structure (March, Parker, Sullivan, Stallings, & Conners, 1997). Therefore a confirmatory factor analysis with a 3rd order model was conducted (with subfactors, factors, and total score) revealing better adjustment indexes. The difference between models was also significant. After a multigroup analysis, this structure revealed to be invariant across gender, but only configural and metric invariance was found across age groups. The convergent and divergent validity of the MASC was confirmed using measures of anxiety, depression, and general wellbeing. A moderate to high temporal stability, in a three-week interval, was obtained. This study confirmed that the Portuguese edition of the MASC is a reliable and useful self-report instrument to assess anxiety in adolescents.Keywords: assessment, anxiety, MASC, psychometric properties, adolescents Esta investigação (FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-029562) foi financiada por ERDF -European Regional Development Fund through the COMPETE Program (programa operacional para a competitividade). A investigação do Prof. Craighead foi financiada por NIMH, pela Fuqua Family Foundations, e pela Mary and John Brock Foundation. E. O. Arnarson and W. E. Craighead são membros da Hugarheil Inc, uma empresa Islandesa, dedicada à disseminação de programas para a prevenção da depressão.

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Reexamination of the MASC factor structure and discriminant ability in a mixed clinical outpatient sample

Cited by 50 publications

References 21 publications

Primary Versus Secondary Diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Youth: Is the Distinction an Important One?

Primary Versus Secondary Diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Youth: Is the Distinction an Important One?

Factor Structure, Reliability and Validity of the Taiwanese Version of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children

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

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