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Validation of the children’s separation anxiety scale – parent version (CSAS-P)

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dc.contributor.authorMéndez, Xavier
dc.contributor.authorEspada, José P.
dc.contributor.authorOrtigosa Quiles, Juan Manuel
dc.contributor.authorGarcía-Fernández, José M.
dc.contributor.departmentPersonalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológicos
dc.contributor.otherFacultad de Psicología y Logopedia
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-21T12:45:04Z
dc.date.available2026-01-21T12:45:04Z
dc.date.copyright© 2022, Méndez, Espada, Ortigosa and García-Fernández
dc.date.issued2022-04-05
dc.description.abstractThe main objective of this research was to validate the parents’ version of the Children’s Separation Anxiety Scale (CSAS-P), which assesses separation anxiety symptoms in pre-adolescence, the stage with the highest incidence of anxiety disorder due to separation. In Study 1, 1,089 parents, those children aged between 8 and 11 (M = 9.59, SD = 1.11), 51.7% girls, were selected by random cluster sampling, who completed the CSAS-P to obtain the factorial structure. Exploratory factor analysis identified four related factors: Worry, Opposition, Calm, and Distress, which explained 42.93% of the variance. In Study 2, 3,801 parents, those children aged between 8 and 11 (M = 9.50, SD = 1.10), 50.2% girls, completed the CSAS-P, and their children completed the Children’s Separation Anxiety Scale (CSAS). The four related-factor model from Study 1 was validated by confirmatory factor analysis. The CSAS-P had adequate internal consistency (a = 0.84), temporal stability (r = 0.72), and invariance across children’s age and gender and the parent who completed the scale. Age and gender differences were small: older children scored higher on Worry and younger children on Distress; the girls scored higher on all factors. Small differences were also found depending on the parent who completed the scale without finding a clear pattern. Parents scored significantly lower than the child on all four factors of the scale. The results support the reliability and validity of the CSAS-P, an instrument that complements the child’s self-report in the framework of the multi-source assessment.
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dc.identifier.citationFront. Psychol. 13:783943
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.783943
dc.identifier.eissn1664-1078
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/190269
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherFrontiers Media
dc.relationThis research was supported by the Spanish National Plan for Research, Development and Technological Innovation Grant (EDU2008-05060) awarded to XM.
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.783943/full
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/
dc.subjectChildren
dc.subjectSeparation anxiety
dc.subjectPsychometric adaptation
dc.subjectParents
dc.subjectAssessment
dc.subject.odsObjetivo 3: Salud
dc.titleValidation of the children’s separation anxiety scale – parent version (CSAS-P)
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