Citation

Ishikawa SI, Shimotsu S, Ono T, Sasagawa S, Kondo-Ikemura K, Sakano Y, Spence SH. Child Psychiatry Hum. Dev. 2014; 45(3): 306-317.

Affiliation

Faculty of Psychology, Doshisha University, 1-3 Tatara Miyakodani, Kyotanabe City, Kyoto, 610-0394, Japan, ishinn@mail.doshisha.ac.jp.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10578-013-0401-y

PMID

24005443

Abstract

Using parental reports, the current study investigated anxiety symptoms among Japanese children as part of the process of developing the Japanese version of the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale for Parents (SCAS-P). The participants were 677 parents and children aged 9-12 years. Confirmatory factor analysis on 568 parents and children supported that the SCAS-P had a 6-factor structure. The scale showed satisfactory internal consistency and good convergent validity. A MANOVA indicated no significant gender or age differences except for the obsessive-compulsive disorder subscale. Among Japanese children, the most prevalent symptoms within the parental report were items related to fear of the dark and of insects/spiders. Finally, we observed very low correlations between parental and child reports of anxiety symptoms; the relationships between child and parental reports were rather poor among Japanese children. We briefly discuss the utility of the SCAS-P as a screening instrument assessing parental reports of anxiety symptoms.

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