PMID- 35048904
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220121
LR  - 20220123
IS  - 1886-144X (Electronic)
IS  - 0214-9915 (Linking)
VI  - 34
IP  - 1
DP  - 2022 Feb
TI  - Measurement Invariance and Latent Mean Differences Between American, Spanish and 
      Chinese Adolescents Using the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A).
PG  - 126-133
LID - 10.7334/psicothema2021.42 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Social anxiety is one of the most prevalent disorders among 
      adolescents (Stein et al., 2017). The main aim of this study was to analyze the 
      equivalence of scores on the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) using 
      structural equation modeling and identify differences in latent means of social 
      anxiety in China, Spain, and the USA. METHOD: Random sampling was used to recruit 
      participants, which included 536 Chinese (46% girls), 1,178 Spanish (55.3% girls) 
      and 866 North American (55.1% girls) adolescents. The participants' ages ranged 
      between 14 and 17 years old. RESULTS: The SAS-A three-factor correlated model of 
      social anxiety remained invariant between the Spanish and North American 
      adolescents, but results could not be replicated in the Chinese adolescents [M2 = 
      DeltaS-Bchi(2) (Deltadf, p) = 4732.56 (36, < .01)]. Analyses of latent differences between 
      Spain and the USA showed that Spanish adolescents had higher scores than North 
      Americans for Fear of Negative Evaluation (TS = -9.630; d = .44) and for Social 
      Avoidance and General Anxiety towards people (TS = -2.717; d = .12). CONCLUSIONS: 
      The results are interpreted according to the cultural traits of 
      individualism-collectivism and self-construal, and practical implications are 
      discussed.
FAU - Torregrosa Diez, Maria S
AU  - Torregrosa Diez MS
AD  - International University of La Rioja (Spain).
FAU - Gomez Nunez, Maria I
AU  - Gomez Nunez MI
FAU - Sanmartin Lopez, Ricardo
AU  - Sanmartin Lopez R
FAU - Garcia Fernandez, Jose M
AU  - Garcia Fernandez JM
FAU - La Greca, Annette M
AU  - La Greca AM
FAU - Zhou, Xinyue
AU  - Zhou X
FAU - Redondo Pacheco, Jesus
AU  - Redondo Pacheco J
FAU - Ingles Saura, Candido J
AU  - Ingles Saura CJ
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Spain
TA  - Psicothema
JT  - Psicothema
JID - 101189384
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - *Anxiety/epidemiology
MH  - *Fear
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Latent Class Analysis
MH  - Male
MH  - Social Behavior
MH  - Spain
MH  - United States
EDAT- 2022/01/21 06:00
MHDA- 2022/01/22 06:00
CRDT- 2022/01/20 08:51
PHST- 2022/01/20 08:51 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/01/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/01/22 06:00 [medline]
AID - 4729 [pii]
AID - 10.7334/psicothema2021.42 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psicothema. 2022 Feb;34(1):126-133. doi: 10.7334/psicothema2021.42.