A multi-group confirmatory factor analysis of the revised children's anxiety and depression scale (RCADS) in Spain, Chile and Sweden
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Título: | A multi-group confirmatory factor analysis of the revised children's anxiety and depression scale (RCADS) in Spain, Chile and Sweden |
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Autor/es: | Cervin, Matti | Veas, Alejandro | Piqueras Rodríguez, José Antonio | Martínez-González, Agustín Ernesto |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Grupo de Investigación Integral en el Neurodesarrollo Típico y Atípico (GINTA) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y Didáctica |
Palabras clave: | Adolescents | Anxiety | Depression | Obsessive-compulsive disorder | Revised child anxiety and depression scale | Cross-cultural study |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación |
Fecha de publicación: | 10-may-2022 |
Editor: | Elsevier |
Cita bibliográfica: | Journal of Affective Disorders. 2022, 310: 228-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.031 |
Resumen: | Background: There is a need for a measure that can be used across countries and cultures to advance cross-cultural research about internalizing mental health symptoms in children and adolescents. The Revised Children's Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) is a potential candidate, but no study has examined whether its scales are measured similarly in youth populations from different countries. Methods: In this study, we use confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and multi-group CFA to examine the cross-cultural properties of a short and free to use 30-item version of RCADS that assesses social, generalized, panic, and separation anxiety alongside depression and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. We tested the factor structure of RCADS in children and adolescents from Chile, Spain, and Sweden, recruited using different research designs (i.e., school-based studies and an anonymous web survey), and whether the factor structure showed measurement invariance across the three countries. Results: The proposed factor structure of RCADS showed good model/data fit in all three countries and was superior to a unidimensional model in which correlations among scale items were explained by a single broad internalizing factor. Each RCADS subscale showed adequate to excellent internal consistency in all three countries and multi-group CFA supported scalar invariance across the three countries. Limitations: No clinical sample was included. Conclusions: This study provides an important first step in supporting the use of RCADS in cross-cultural research on depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in children and adolescents, but more work on validity aspects of the scale across cultures is needed. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/123462 |
ISSN: | 0165-0327 (Print) | 1573-2517 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.031 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.031 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - GINTA - Artículos de Revistas |
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