Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders: Are subscale scores reliable? A bifactor model analysis

• Published in: Journal of anxiety disorders Vol. 28; no. 8; pp. 966 - 970
• Main Authors: DeSousa, Diogo Araújo, Zibetti, Murilo Ricardo, Trentini, Clarissa Marceli, Koller, Silvia Helena, Manfro, Gisele Gus, Salum, Giovanni Abrahão
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Ltd 01-12-2014; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Affective Symptoms - diagnosis; Affective Symptoms - psychology; Age Factors; Anxiety; Anxiety - diagnosis; Anxiety - psychology; Anxiety Disorders - diagnosis; Anxiety Disorders - psychology; Anxiety disorders. Neuroses; Bifactor model; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Factor structure; Female; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychometrics; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders; Self Report; Sex Factors; Factor structure; Psychometrics; Anxiety; Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders; Bifactor model; Infantile experience; Models; Emotional disorder; Anxiety disorder
• ISSN: 0887-6185; 1873-7897
• DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2014.10.002

Highlights • The bifactor model fit the SCARED data well. • The score variance was hardly influenced by the specific domains after controlling for the common variance in the general factor. • After accounting for the general total score, subscale scores provided very little reliable information. • There is more common variance to the SCARED subscale scores than specific variance.