PMID- 12194546
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20030123
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 0887-6185 (Print)
IS  - 0887-6185 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 2
DP  - 2002
TI  - Cross validation of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents in a high school 
      sample.
PG  - 221-32
AB  - Social anxiety disorder in adolescents is increasingly recognized as a common 
      condition that may precede onset of other mental health problems. However, few 
      measures are currently available to screen for adolescent social anxiety, and 
      little is known about their psychometric characteristics in school-based samples. 
      To this end, the present study was undertaken as a psychometric cross validation 
      of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A). Exploratory and Confirmatory 
      Factor Analyses (CFA) supported the original 3-factor structure of the SAS-A but 
      retained fewer items than in the original scale. The revised scales demonstrated 
      good internal consistency as well as criterion and concurrent validity. Despite 
      including fewer items, psychometric characteristics of the revised scales were 
      equivalent to or stronger than those reported in previous studies of the measure. 
      As such, the present study provides initial support for the utility of the 
      revised SAS-A as a measure of social anxiety in adolescent school samples.
FAU - Myers, Mark G
AU  - Myers MG
AD  - Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System and Department of Phychiatry, 
      University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92161, USA. mgmyers@ucsd.edu
FAU - Stein, Murray B
AU  - Stein MB
FAU - Aarons, Gregory A
AU  - Aarons GA
LA  - eng
GR  - AA-11155/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Evaluation Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - J Anxiety Disord
JT  - Journal of anxiety disorders
JID - 8710131
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Anxiety Disorders/*diagnosis
MH  - California
MH  - Factor Analysis, Statistical
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Psychological Tests
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Sensitivity and Specificity
MH  - Students/psychology
EDAT- 2002/08/27 10:00
MHDA- 2003/01/24 04:00
CRDT- 2002/08/27 10:00
PHST- 2002/08/27 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2003/01/24 04:00 [medline]
PHST- 2002/08/27 10:00 [entrez]
AID - S0887-6185(02)00098-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/s0887-6185(02)00098-1 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Anxiety Disord. 2002;16(2):221-32. doi: 10.1016/s0887-6185(02)00098-1.