@article{ref1,
title="Development and Initial Validation of the Child Disgust Scale",
journal="Psychological assessment",
year="2015",
author="Viar-Paxton, Megan A. and Ebesutani, Chad and Kim, Eun Ha and Ollendick, Thomas and Young, John and Olatunji, Bunmi O.",
volume="27",
number="3",
pages="1082-1096",
abstract="Although disgust sensitivity (DS) has been implicated in the development of anxiety disorders in children, the absence of a measure of DS specifically for children has not allowed for an adequate test of this claim. To fill this important gap in the literature, this investigation presents a series of studies on the development and examination of the psychometric properties (including reliability, validity, and factor structure) of scores on a newly developed Child Disgust Scale (CDS). Exploratory factor analysis in Study 1 (N = 1,500) found that a bifactor model, which allows for a &quot;g&quot; DS factor in addition to 2 distinct factors of Disgust Avoidance and Disgust Affect, was the best fit for the data. Study 2 (N = 573) confirmed a two-factor bifactor model above and beyond a 1-factor model that controlled for method effects due to reverse-worded items. <br><br>RESULTS from Study 3 (N = 50) provided support for convergent and discriminant validity such that scores on the CDS were significantly correlated with measures of anxiety and fear, but not depression. Finally, Study 4 (N = 86) found that the CDS differentiated children with a diagnosis of specific phobia (n = 43) from a matched nonclinical community sample of children (n = 43), such that those with a specific phobia reported greater DS compared with controls. <br><br>RESULTS from these studies suggest that the CDS is a developmentally appropriate measure with good psychometric properties that can aid research on the role of disgust sensitivity in anxiety-related disorders in children. (PsycINFO Database Record<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1040-3590",
doi="10.1037/a0038925",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038925"
}