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Cross-Ethnic Measurement Equivalence of the RCMAS in Latino and White Youth With Anxiety Disorders

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: We examined the measurement equivalence of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS; Reynolds & Richmond, 1979 Reynolds, C. R. and Richmond, B. O. 1979. Factor structure and construct validity of “What I think and feel”: The Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 43: 281–283. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) in a sample of 667 White and Latino youth with anxiety disorders. Findings supported the factorial invariance of the Physiological Anxiety, Worry/Oversensitivity, and Social Concerns/Concentration subscales as well as the construct validity equivalence of the RCMAS Total Anxiety scale. The RCMAS appears to have measurement equivalence across Latino and White youth.

Source: Journal of Personality Assessment

DOI: 10.1080/00223890802484183

Authors: Armando A. Pina, Michelle Little, George P. Knight, Wendy K. Silverman

Institutions: Arizona State University, Florida International University

Language: English

Topic: Psychometric Methodologies and Testing

Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health