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A multi-group confirmatory factor analysis of the revised children's anxiety and depression scale (RCADS) in Spain, Chile and Sweden

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2022-05-10
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Cervin, M. ; Veas Iniesta, Alejandro ; Piqueras Rodriguez, J. A. ; Martínez-gonzález, A. E.
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Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.031
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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.031
Abstract
Background: There is a need for a measure that can be used across countries and cultures to advance cross-cultural research about internalizing mental health symptoms in children and adolescents. The Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) is a potential candidate, but no study has examined whether its scales are measured similarly in youth populations from different countries. Methods: In this study, we use confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and multi-group CFA to examine the crosscultural properties of a short and free to use 30-item version of RCADS that assesses social, generalized, panic, and separation anxiety alongside depression and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. We tested the factor structure of RCADS in children and adolescents from Chile, Spain, and Sweden, recruited using different research designs (i.e., school-based studies and an anonymous web survey), and whether the factor structure showed measurement invariance across the three countries. Results: The proposed factor structure of RCADS showed good model/data fit in all three countries and was superior to a unidimensional model in which correlations among scale items were explained by a single broad internalizing factor. Each RCADS subscale showed adequate to excellent internal consistency in all three countries and multi-group CFA supported scalar invariance across the three countries. Limitations: No clinical sample was included. Conclusions: This study provides an important first step in supporting the use of RCADS in cross-cultural research on depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in children and adolescents, but more work on validity aspects of the scale across cultures is needed.
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Adolescents , Anxiety , Cross-cultura study , Depression , Obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Journal of Affective Disorders nº310 pág.: 228-234
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032721003256?via%3Dihub
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http://hdl.handle.net/10201/121013
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