Social Anxiety Disorder in Childhood and Pre-Adolescence: Adaptation of the SASC-R for European Portuguese

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2014

Authors

Martins, AC (Author) Other; Paulo Almeida, JP (Author) Other; Viana, Victor (Author) FCNAUP

Journal

Title: Psicologia: Reflexao e Critica

Vol. 27 No. 1

Pages: 300-307

ISSN: 0102-7972

Publisher: Springer Nature

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-009-PC5

DOI: 10.1590/1678-7153.201427210

Abstract (EN): The Social Anxiety Scale for Children (revised form) - SASC-R evaluates the experience of social anxiety and avoidance felt by children and pre-adolescents in the context of relationship with their peers. This study aims to validate the Portuguese version of the SASC-R by confirmatory factor analysis using the structure proposed by the authors of the original scale. In a survey donewith 486 children between the ages of nine and 15 years, the results show that the scale reproduces the original factors, has a good internal consistency and a quite satisfactory construct validity. This study suggests that the SASC-R is a useful scale on the evaluation of social anxiety among children.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8