PMID- 20609560
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110128
LR  - 20101018
IS  - 1873-7897 (Electronic)
IS  - 0887-6185 (Linking)
VI  - 24
IP  - 8
DP  - 2010 Dec
TI  - Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents: factorial invariance and latent mean 
      differences across gender and age in Spanish adolescents.
PG  - 847-55
LID - 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.06.007 [doi]
AB  - Little is known about the factorial invariance across gender and age for 
      self-report measures of social anxiety in adolescence. This study examined the 
      factorial invariance and latent mean differences of the Social Anxiety Scale for 
      Adolescents (SAS-A) across gender and age groups in 1570 Spanish adolescents (54% 
      girls), ranging in age from 14 to 17 years. Equality of factor structures was 
      compared using multi-group confirmatory factor analyses. Measurement invariance 
      for the correlated three-factor model of the SAS-A was found across gender and 
      age samples. Analyses of latent mean differences revealed that girls exhibited 
      higher means than boys on two SAS-A subscales, Fear of Negative Evaluation and 
      Social Avoidance and Distress-New (SAD-New). In addition, on the SAD-New 
      subscale, the structured means significantly diminished from 14-year olds to 16- 
      and 17-year olds and from 15-year olds to 17-year olds. Findings are discussed in 
      terms of the use of the SAS-A with Spanish adolescents.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Ingles, Candido J
AU  - Ingles CJ
AD  - Department of Health Psychology, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Avda de la 
      Universidad, s/n, 03202 Elche, Alicante, Spain. cjingles@umh.es
FAU - La Greca, Annette M
AU  - La Greca AM
FAU - Marzo, Juan C
AU  - Marzo JC
FAU - Garcia-Lopez, Luis J
AU  - Garcia-Lopez LJ
FAU - Garcia-Fernandez, Jose M
AU  - Garcia-Fernandez JM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20100617
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - J Anxiety Disord
JT  - Journal of anxiety disorders
JID - 8710131
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Factor Analysis, Statistical
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Phobic Disorders/diagnosis/*psychology
MH  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales/standards/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Sex Factors
MH  - Spain
EDAT- 2010/07/09 06:00
MHDA- 2011/02/01 06:00
CRDT- 2010/07/09 06:00
PHST- 2009/09/18 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/06/08 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2010/06/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2010/07/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/07/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/02/01 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0887-6185(10)00133-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.06.007 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Anxiety Disord. 2010 Dec;24(8):847-55. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.06.007. Epub 
      2010 Jun 17.