PMID- 26797703
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20171120
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1573-3327 (Electronic)
IS  - 0009-398X (Linking)
VI  - 47
IP  - 6
DP  - 2016 Dec
TI  - The Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents: Measurement Invariance and Psychometric 
      Properties Among a School Sample of Portuguese Youths.
PG  - 975-984
AB  - Over the last decades there has been an increased interest in assessing social 
      anxiety in adolescents. This study aims to validate the Social Anxiety Scale for 
      Adolescents (SAS-A) to Portuguese youth, and to examine its invariance across 
      gender as well as its psychometric properties. The participants were 782 
      Portuguese youths (371 males, 411 females), with an average age of 15.87 years 
      (SD = 1.72). The results support the original three-factor structure of the 
      SAS-A, with measurement invariance being found across gender, with females 
      scoring higher than males on two subscales. High levels of internal consistency 
      were found. Positive associations with empathy demonstrated that high socially 
      anxious adolescents have elevated empathy tendencies. Mostly null or low negative 
      associations were found with measures of psychopathic traits, callous-unemotional 
      traits and aggression. Study findings provide evidence that the SAS-A is a 
      psychometrically sound instrument that shows measurement invariance between 
      genders, good reliability and positive correlations with empathy.
FAU - Pechorro, Pedro
AU  - Pechorro P
AD  - School of Psychology, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, 
      Portugal. ppechorro@gmail.com.
FAU - Ayala-Nunes, Lara
AU  - Ayala-Nunes L
AD  - Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Seville, 
      C/Camilo Jose Cela S/N, 41018, Seville, Spain.
AD  - Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, University of Algarve, 
      Campus de Gambelas Edificio 9, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal.
FAU - Nunes, Cristina
AU  - Nunes C
AD  - Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, University of Algarve, 
      Campus de Gambelas Edificio 9, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal.
FAU - Maroco, Joao
AU  - Maroco J
AD  - ISPA - Instituto Universitario, Rua Jardim do Tabaco, 34, 1149-041, Lisbon, 
      Portugal.
FAU - Goncalves, Rui Abrunhosa
AU  - Goncalves RA
AD  - School of Psychology, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, 
      Portugal.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Child Psychiatry Hum Dev
JT  - Child psychiatry and human development
JID - 1275332
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adolescent Behavior/*psychology
MH  - Aggression/psychology
MH  - *Anxiety/diagnosis/psychology
MH  - Behavior Rating Scale
MH  - *Empathy
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Portugal
MH  - Psychometrics/*methods
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Sex Factors
MH  - Social Behavior
MH  - Statistics as Topic
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Adolescence
OT  - Assessment
OT  - Empathy
OT  - Psychometrics
OT  - Social anxiety
EDAT- 2016/10/21 06:00
MHDA- 2017/11/29 06:00
CRDT- 2016/01/23 06:00
PHST- 2016/10/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/11/29 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/01/23 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s10578-016-0627-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s10578-016-0627-6 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2016 Dec;47(6):975-984. doi: 10.1007/s10578-016-0627-6.