The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) and traditional childhood anxiety measures

J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 1998 Dec;29(4):327-39. doi: 10.1016/s0005-7916(98)00023-8.

Abstract

The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) is a self-report questionnaire that measures symptoms of DSM-IV linked anxiety disorders in children. This article presents two studies that investigated the relationship between the SCARED, on the one hand, and two other widely used anxiety measures for children, namely the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) and the Fear Survey Schedule for Children-Revised (FSSC-R), on the other hand. Results indicate that SCARED scores are positively and in a theoretically meaningful way related to RCMAS and FSSC-R scores, and thus provide evidence for the concurrent validity of the SCARED.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors
  • Anxiety Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Anxiety Disorders / psychology
  • Child
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Personality Inventory / standards
  • Personality Inventory / statistics & numerical data*
  • Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / standards
  • Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / statistics & numerical data
  • Psychometrics
  • Reproducibility of Results