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Investigating the Structure of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale

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
RCMAS, trait anxiety, factor analysis
Submission Date
2004-07-02
Revised Date
Accepted Date
2005-02-14

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