Reliability and Validity of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale in a French-Canadian Sample.

Turgeon, Lyse; Chartrand, Élise

doi:10.1037/1040-3590.15.3.378

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“…Relatedly, they suggest that the subscales may not represent well-defined or stable factors, and that Performance of the RCMAS in a South African Sample 5 individual items load onto factors that appear inconsistent with the item content (White & Farrell, 2001). Additionally, White and Farrell (2001) argue that although the reliability, validity, and factor structure of the RCMAS has been assessed in a number of languages, including German, Spanish, and French-Canadian samples (Boehnke, Silbereisen, Reynolds, & Richmond, 1986;Ferrando, 1994;Turgeon & Chartrand, 2003), little is known about its performance in more ethnically diverse populations. For researchers working with children in the South African context it is important to evaluate the psychometric properties of the RCMAS in South African samples.…”

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Performance of the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale in a Sample of Children and Adolescents from Poor Urban Communities in Cape Town

Boyes

Cluver

2013

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

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The Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) is regularly used with South African children, although its performance in this context has yet to be empirically evaluated. This study assessed the basic psychometric properties of the RCMAS using data collected in a large study examining the mental health of children and adolescents living in poor urban communities around Cape Town. Reliability of the full-scale was good, and the predicted relationships between anxiety, depression, PTSD, delinquency, age, sex, and somaticism scores offered evidence of construct validity. However, the reliabilities for the physiological, worry/oversensitivity, and concentration subscales were low, and confirmatory factor analysis revealed the hypothesized three-factor model did not adequately fit the data. Exploratory analyses suggested a four-factor solution consisting of social evaluation, worry, affective responses, and physiological symptoms/sleep disturbance factors. Further confirmatory research examining this four-factor structure is needed. Given the continued use of the RCMAS in South Africa, these findings provide an important first step in establishing its reliability and validity for use with South African youth; however, scores obtained on the three subscales should be interpreted with caution and further detailed psychometric evaluation of the RCMAS in South African samples is clearly required.

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Performance of the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale in a Sample of Children and Adolescents from Poor Urban Communities in Cape Town

Boyes

Cluver

2013

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

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“…All participants underwent an intellectual evaluation, using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III (WISC-III) short form (Kaufman et al 1996). Using ageappropriate self-report instruments, all participants were screened for levels of anxiety [Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (R-CMAS) ; Turgeon & Chartrand, 2003 ;French version, 1999] and depression [Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) ; SaintLaurent, 1990]. …”

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Source monitoring for actions in adolescents with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS)

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BACKGROUND: Source monitoring consists in identifying the origin of mental events. Recent research suggests that confusions over internally generated mental events may represent a cognitive marker for increased proneness to psychotic symptoms and disorders. We have examined source monitoring for actions in adolescents with the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS), a neurogenetic disease associated with high rates of schizophrenia during adulthood, and expected to observe source monitoring deficits in comparison to IQ-matched and typically developing controls. METHOD: Eighteen adolescents with 22q11DS, 17 adolescents matched for age and IQ, and also 17 adolescents matched for age participated in this study. Our adapted action monitoring paradigm asked subjects to visualize a series of actions in three different conditions: (1) visualize themselves performing the action; (2) visualize the experimenter performing the action; or (3) simply repeat the action statements without visualization of the action performer. RESULTS: The adolescents with 22q11DS performed adequately in terms of recognition (hits), but in comparison to both control groups, they committed more source confusions on correctly recognized items. Further examination revealed that the adolescents were more likely to demonstrate confusions between exterior sources in which the self was not involved. CONCLUSIONS: Source monitoring deficits can be observed in adolescents with 22q11DS, a syndrome putting them at high risk for developing schizophrenia. These deficits are discussed in terms of early cognitive processes associated with genetic risk for schizophrenia

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“…The incremental validity of the CASI-R over other commonly used anxiety measure has yet to be demonstrated. Examples of measures that it would be interesting to incorporate into future investigations of the validity of the CASI-R include the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC; Turgeon, Chartrand, Robaey, & Gauthier, 2006) and the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS; Turgeon & Chartrand, 2003b). And thirdly, the CASI-R's reliability in this study is limited to internal consistency.…”

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A French Translation of the Revised Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (Casi-R): Its Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity in a Nonclinical Sample of Children Aged 12 and 13 Years Old

Stassart¹,

Hansez

Delvaux³

et al. 2013

PSYCHOL BELG

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This study (n = 237 Belgian children; mean age = 12.3 years; SD = 0.41) examined the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the French translation of the Revised Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (CASI-R). We obtained a hierarchical factor structure with four lower-order factors -"fear of cognitive dyscontrol," "fear of publicly observable anxiety reactions," "fear of respiratory symptoms," and "fear of cardiovascular symptoms" -loading on a single higher-order factor ("anxiety sensitivity"). The French translation revealed acceptable internal consistency and a good interitem structure. Anxiety sensitivity was connected with the anxiety and depression scales but the correlation between the CASI-R and the depression score was more modest than that between the CASI-R and the trait anxiety score, indicating that the CASI-R is an anxiety scale. Girls reported more fear of anxious feelings than boys. This revised version allows for a more fine-grained assessment of the anxiety sensitivity concept.

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Reliability and Validity of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale in a French-Canadian Sample.

Cited by 91 publications

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Performance of the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale in a Sample of Children and Adolescents from Poor Urban Communities in Cape Town

Performance of the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale in a Sample of Children and Adolescents from Poor Urban Communities in Cape Town

Source monitoring for actions in adolescents with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS)

A French Translation of the Revised Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (Casi-R): Its Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity in a Nonclinical Sample of Children Aged 12 and 13 Years Old

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