Investigating the Structure of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale
Hae-Yon Park
(Department of Psychiatry, Samsung Medical Center Sungkyunkwan University, School of Medicine)
Ji-Hae Kim
(Department of Psychiatry, Samsung Medical Center Sungkyunkwan University, School of Medicine)
Hae-Jung Ko
(Department of Psychiatry, Samsung Medical Center Sungkyunkwan University, School of Medicine)
Sehee Hong
(Department of Psychology Ehwa Womens University)
Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology / Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology, (E)2733-4538
2005, v.24 no.2, pp.427-437
Park,
H., Kim,
J., Ko,
H., &
Hong,
S.
(2005). Investigating the Structure of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale. Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 24(2), 427-437.
Abstract
This study investigated the factor structure of RCMAS(Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale) using Mplus software that supplies estimation method(WLSMV) for categorical data. The participants consisted of 1614 children and adolescents aged 10-17. The results showed that children's anxiety accessed by RCMAS has four factors: worry, oversensitivity, physical․sleep problems, negative affect/attention problem. The strengths of this study include the application of more rigorous quantitative methodology than has been used in previous studies. Also, this result that children's anxiety assessed by RCMAS has four factors is possible to used in clinical settings as well as future researches.
- keywords
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RCMAS,
trait anxiety,
factor analysis
- Submission Date
- 2004-07-02
- Revised Date
- Accepted Date
- 2005-02-14