PMID- 31165617
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210728
LR  - 20221205
IS  - 1552-3489 (Electronic)
IS  - 1073-1911 (Print)
IS  - 1073-1911 (Linking)
VI  - 28
IP  - 1
DP  - 2021 Jan
TI  - A Psychometric Analysis of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents Among Youth 
      With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Caregiver-Adolescent Agreement, Factor Structure, 
      and Validity.
PG  - 100-115
LID - 10.1177/1073191119851563 [doi]
AB  - Social anxiety is common among adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). 
      An ongoing challenge for both research and clinical practice in ASD is the 
      assessment of anxious symptomatology. Despite its widespread use in samples of 
      youth with ASD, the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) has not received 
      psychometric evaluation within this population; thus, the validity of its use in 
      research and clinical practice for ASD remains unclear. The present study 
      conducted a psychometric analysis of caregiver and adolescent SAS-A forms in a 
      sample of adolescents with ASD (N = 197). Results revealed (1) poor 
      caregiver-adolescent item-level agreement, (2) a two-factor structure, (3) lack 
      of measurement invariance between reporters, and (4) modest evidence for 
      convergent and discriminant validity. Overall, findings suggest that this measure 
      demonstrates reasonable psychometric properties in an ASD sample. Lack of 
      measurement invariance, however, calls for careful interpretation of research 
      involving the SAS-A in ASD samples, particularly when the primary goal is to 
      compare adolescent and caregiver reports. The implications of these findings for 
      future research and clinical practice are discussed.
FAU - Schiltz, Hillary K
AU  - Schiltz HK
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7861-6049
AD  - Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
FAU - Magnus, Brooke E
AU  - Magnus BE
AD  - Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
FAU - McVey, Alana J
AU  - McVey AJ
AD  - Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
FAU - Haendel, Angela D
AU  - Haendel AD
AD  - Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
FAU - Dolan, Bridget K
AU  - Dolan BK
AD  - Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
FAU - Stanley, Rachel E
AU  - Stanley RE
AD  - Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
FAU - Willar, Kirsten A
AU  - Willar KA
AD  - Stanford Children's Health, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
FAU - Pleiss, Sheryl J
AU  - Pleiss SJ
AD  - Great Lakes Neurobehavioral Center, Edina, MN, USA.
FAU - Carson, Audrey M
AU  - Carson AM
AD  - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
FAU - Carlson, Mary
AU  - Carlson M
AD  - Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
FAU - Murphy, Christina
AU  - Murphy C
AD  - Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
FAU - Vogt, Elisabeth M
AU  - Vogt EM
AD  - Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
FAU - Yund, Brianna D
AU  - Yund BD
AD  - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
FAU - Van Hecke, Amy Vaughan
AU  - Van Hecke AV
AD  - Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
LA  - eng
GR  - KL2 TR000056/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
GR  - KL2 TR001438/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
GR  - UL1 TR001436/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20190605
PL  - United States
TA  - Assessment
JT  - Assessment
JID - 9431219
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Anxiety/diagnosis
MH  - Anxiety Disorders
MH  - *Autism Spectrum Disorder/diagnosis
MH  - Caregivers
MH  - Humans
MH  - Psychometrics
PMC - PMC9717689
MID - NIHMS1844216
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - autism spectrum disorder
OT  - factor structure
OT  - measurement invariance
OT  - parent-child agreement
OT  - social anxiety
OT  - validity
EDAT- 2019/06/06 06:00
MHDA- 2021/07/29 06:00
PMCR- 2022/12/02
CRDT- 2019/06/06 06:00
PHST- 2019/06/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/07/29 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/06/06 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/12/02 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1177/1073191119851563 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Assessment. 2021 Jan;28(1):100-115. doi: 10.1177/1073191119851563. Epub 2019 Jun 
      5.