PMID- 25059683
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160111
LR  - 20211203
IS  - 1552-3489 (Electronic)
IS  - 1073-1911 (Linking)
VI  - 22
IP  - 2
DP  - 2015 Apr
TI  - Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents: factorial invariance across gender and age 
      in Hispanic American adolescents.
PG  - 224-32
LID - 10.1177/1073191114540749 [doi]
AB  - Social anxiety is a common psychological disorder that often emerges during 
      adolescence and is associated with significant impairment. Efforts to prevent 
      social anxiety disorder require sound assessment measures for identifying anxious 
      youth, especially those from minority backgrounds. We examined the factorial 
      invariance and latent mean differences of the Social Anxiety Scale for 
      Adolescents (SAS-A) across gender and age groups in Hispanic American adolescents 
      (N = 1,191; 56% girls; 15-18 years) using multigroup confirmatory factor 
      analyses. Results indicated that the factorial configuration of the correlated 
      three-factor model of the SAS-A was invariant across gender and age. Analyses of 
      latent mean differences revealed that boys exhibited higher structured means than 
      girls on the Social Avoidance and Distress-General (SAD-General) subscale. On all 
      SAS-A subscales, Fear of Negative Evaluation, Social Avoidance and Distress-New, 
      and SAD-General, estimates of the structured means decreased with adolescent age. 
      Implications for further research and clinical practice are discussed.
CI  - (c) The Author(s) 2014.
FAU - La Greca, Annette M
AU  - La Greca AM
AD  - University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA alagreca@miami.edu.
FAU - Ingles, Candido J
AU  - Ingles CJ
AD  - Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Alicante, Spain.
FAU - Lai, Betty S
AU  - Lai BS
AD  - Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
FAU - Marzo, Juan C
AU  - Marzo JC
AD  - Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Alicante, Spain.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Validation Study
DEP - 20140724
PL  - United States
TA  - Assessment
JT  - Assessment
JID - 9431219
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adolescent Behavior/*psychology
MH  - Age Distribution
MH  - Anxiety Disorders/*diagnosis/*psychology
MH  - Factor Analysis, Statistical
MH  - Female
MH  - Florida
MH  - Hispanic or Latino/*psychology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales/standards
MH  - Psychology, Adolescent
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - Sex Distribution
MH  - Social Behavior
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Hispanic American
OT  - adolescence
OT  - factorial invariance
OT  - gender
OT  - social anxiety
EDAT- 2014/07/26 06:00
MHDA- 2016/01/12 06:00
CRDT- 2014/07/26 06:00
PHST- 2014/07/26 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/07/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/01/12 06:00 [medline]
AID - 1073191114540749 [pii]
AID - 10.1177/1073191114540749 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Assessment. 2015 Apr;22(2):224-32. doi: 10.1177/1073191114540749. Epub 2014 Jul 
      24.