Psychometric update of the social anxiety screening scale (SASS/EDAS) in a spanish adolescent population

  1. Piqueras Rodríguez, José Antonio
  2. Olivares Rodríguez, José
  3. Hidalgo Montesinos, María Dolores
  4. Vera Villarroel, Pablo E.
  5. Marzo Campos, Juan Carlos
Revista:
The Spanish Journal of Psychology

ISSN: 1138-7416

Año de publicación: 2011

Volumen: 14

Número: 2

Páginas: 977-989

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.5209/REV_SJOP.2011.V14.N2.43 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: The Spanish Journal of Psychology

Información de financiación

This research was carried out thanks to two grants from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (SEJ2004-01471/PSIC) and from the Fundación Séneca of the Region de Murcia (01116/FPI/03). The preparation of this article was supported by a grant from the Carolina Foundation awarded to the first author for a research stay at the School of Psychology of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile.

Referencias bibliográficas

  • American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (text revision). Washington, DC: Author, doi:10.1176/appi.books.9780890423349
  • Anderson, E. R., Jordan, J. A., Smith, A. J., & Inderbitzen-Nolan, H. M. (2009). An examination of the MASC Social Anxiety Scale in a non-referred sample of adolescents. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23, 1098-1105. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2009.07.013
  • Beidel, D., Turner, S., & Morris, T. (1995). A new inventory to assess childhood social anxiety and phobia: the social phobia and anxiety inventory for children. Psychological Assessment, 7, 73-79. doi:10.1037/1040- 3590.7.1.73
  • Bentler, P. (2005). EQS 6.1: Structural equations program manual. Encino, CA: Multivariate Software.
  • Byrne, B. M. (2008). Testing for multigroup equivalence of a measuring instrument: A walk through the process. Psicothema, 20, 872-882.
  • Caballo, V. E., González, S., Alonso, V., & Irurtia, M. J. (2007). El "Cuestionario de interactión social para niños" (CISO-N): un nuevo instrumento para la evaluation de la ansiedad social en niño [The Social Interaction Questionnnaire for Children (CISO-N): A new instrument for the assessment of social anxiety in children]. Psicologia Conductual, 1, 77-93. (Pubitemid 46598184)
  • Caballo, V., Salazar, I., Arias, B., Irurtia, M., Calderero, M., & Equipo de Investigatión CISO-A España (2010). Validacion del "Cuestionario de ansiedad social para adultos" (CASO-A30) en universitarios españoles: similitudes y diferencias entre comunidades y carreras universitarias [Validation of the social anxiety questionnaire for adults (SAQ-A30) with Spanish university students: Similarities and differences among degree subjects and regions]. Psicologia Conductual, 18, 5-34.
  • Caballo, V., Salazar, I., Irurtia, M., Arias, B., Hofmann, S. G, & Team, C-A. R. (2010). Measuring social anxiety in 11 countries: development and validation of the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 26, 95-107. doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000014
  • Castillo, R. D., Perez-Salas, C. P., Bravo, G, Cancino, M. G, Catalan, J., & Acosta, H. C. (2008). Disefio y validacion de una escala de competencia comunicativa y social para nifios [Design and validation of a scale of communicative and social skill for children]. Terapia Psicologica, 26, 173-180. doi:10.4067/S0718-48082008000200003
  • Clark, D. B., Turner, S., Beidel, D., Donovan, J. E., Kirisci, L., & Jacob, R. G (1994). Reliability and validity of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for adolescents. Psychological Assessment, 6, 135-140. doi:10.1037/1040-3590.6.2.135 (Pubitemid 24281662)
  • Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral science (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Connor, K. M., Davidson, J. R., Churchill, L. E., Sherwood, A., Foa, E., & Weisler, R. H. (2000). Psychometric properties of the Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN). New self-rating scale. British Journal of Psychiatry, 176, 379-386. doi:10.1192/bjp.176.4.379
  • Curran, P., West, S., & Finch, J. (1996). The robustness of test statistics to nonnormality and specification error in confirmatory factor analysis. Psychological Methods, I, 16-29. doi:10.1037//1082-989X.1.1.16 (Pubitemid 126421251)
  • Dimitrov, D. M. (2006). Comparing groups on latent variables: a structural equation modeling approach. Work, 26, 429-436. (Pubitemid 43905175)
  • Fehm, L., Beesdo, K., Jacobi, F., & Fiedler, A. (2008). Social anxiety disorder above and below the diagnostic threshold: prevalence, comorbidity and impairment in the general population. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 43, 257-265. doi:10.1007/s00127-007-0299-4
  • Finney, S. J., & DiStefano, C. (2006). Nonnormal and categorical data in structural equation models. In G R. Hancock & R. O. Mueller (Eds.), A second course in structural equation modeling (pp. 269 - 314). Greenwich, CT: Information Age.
  • Garcia-Lopez, L. J., Bermejo, R. M., & Hidalgo, M. D. (2010). The Social Phobia Inventory: Screening and cross-cultural validation in Spanish adolescents. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 13, 968-978.
  • Garcia-Lopez, L. J., Hidalgo, M., Beidel, D., Olivares, J., & Turner, S. (2008). Brief form of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI-B) for adolescents. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 24, 150-156. doi:10.1027/1015-5759.24.3.150
  • Garcia-Lopez, L. J., Olivares, J., & Vera-Villarroel, P. (2003). Revision de instrumentos de evaluación de la fobia social validados para población de habla española [Social phobia: a review of assessment instruments validated for Spanish-speaking populations]. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicologia, 35, 151-160.
  • García-López, L. J., Piqueras, J., Díaz-Castela, M., & Inglés, C. (2008). Trastorno de ansiedad social en la infancia y adolescencia: Estado actual, avances recientes y lineas futures [Social anxiety disorder in childhood and adolescents: current trends, advances, and future directions]. Psicologia Conductual, 3, 501-533.
  • García-López, L. J., Olivares, J., Hidalgo, M. D., Beidel, D., & Turner, S. (2001). Psychometric properties of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory, the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents, the Fear of Negative Evaluation scale and the Social Avoidance Distress scale in an adolescent Spanish speaking population. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 23, 51-59. doi:10.1023/A:1011043607878 (Pubitemid 33635992)
  • Gren-Landell, M., Bjorklind, A., Tillfors, M., Furmark, T, Svedin, C. G, & Andersson, G (2009). Evaluation of the psychometric properties of a modified version of the Social Phobia Screening Questionnaire for use in adolescents. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 3, 36. doi:10.1186/1753-2000-3-36
  • Hale, W. W., Ill, Raaijmakers, Q., Muris, P., van Hoof, A., & Meeus, W. (2008). Developmental trajectories of adolescent anxiety disorder symptoms: a 5-year prospective community study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47, 556-564. doi:10.1097/CHI. 0b013e3181676583 (Pubitemid 351591605)
  • Holmbeck, G N., Thill, A. W., Bachanas, P., Garber, J., Miller, K. B., Abad, M., Zukerman, J. (2008). Evidence-based assessment in pediatric psychology: Measures of psychosocial adjustment and psychopathology. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 33, 958-980. doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsm059
  • Hu, L., & Bentler, P. (1999). Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in convariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling, 6, 1-55. doi:10.1080/10705519909540118
  • Inglés, C. J., La Greca, A. M., Marzo, J. C, García- López, L. J., & García-Fernández, J. M. (2010). Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents: factorial invariance and latent mean differences across gender and age in Spanish adolescents. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 24, 847-855. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.06.007
  • Inglés, C. J., Méndez, F. X., & Hidalgo, M. D. (2000). Cuestionario de Evaluación de Dificultades Interpersonales en la Adolescencia [Questionnaire about interpersonal difficulty for adolescents]. Psicothema, 12, 390-398.
  • Inglés, C, Piqueras, J., García-Fernández, J., García-López, L. J., Delgado, B., & Ruiz-Esteban, C. (2010). Diferencias de género y edad en respuestas cognitivas, psicofisiologicas y motoras de ansiedad social en la adolescencia [Gender and age differences in the cognitive, psychophysiological, and behavioral responses of social anxiety in adolescence]. Psicothema, 22, 376-381.
  • Kearny, C. (2005). Social anxiety and social phobia in youth. Characteristics, assessment, and psychological treatment. New York, NY: Springer.
  • La Greca, A. M., & Stone, W. (1993). Social Anxiety Scale for Children-Revised: factor structure and concurrent validity. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 22, 17-27. doi:10.1207/sl 5374424jccp2201-2
  • La Greca, A. M., & Lopez, N. (1998). Social anxiety among adolescents: linkages with peer relations and friendships. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 26, 83-94. doi:10.1023/A:1022684520514 (Pubitemid 28249056)
  • Lang, P. (1968). Fear reduction and fear behavior: Problems in treating a construct. In J. Shlien (Ed.), Research in psychotherapy (Vol. 3, pp. 90-102). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Liebowitz, M. R. (1987). Social phobia. Modern Problems of Pharmacopsychiatry, 22, 141-173.
  • Lipsey, M., & Wilson, D. (2001). Practical Meta-analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Myers, K., & Winters, N. C. (2002). Ten-year review of rating scales. II: Scales for internalizing disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 41, 634-659. doi:10.1097/00004583-200206000- 00004 (Pubitemid 38338109)
  • Nunnally, J. C. (1978). Psychometric theory. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
  • Olivares, J. (2009). Evaluación y tratamiento de la fobia social en población infanto-juvenii de los paises de habla española y portuguesa [Evaluation and treatment of social phobia in children and adolescents in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries]. Anuario de Psicología, 40, 7-21.
  • Olivares, J., & García-López, L. (1998). Escala para la Deteccion de la Ansiedad Social. [Social Anxiety Screening Scale]. Murcia, Spain: Universidad de Murcia.
  • Olivares, J., García-López, L. J., Hidalgo, M. D., & Caballo, V. (2004). Relationships among social anxiety measures and their invariance: a confirmatory factor analysis. Journal of Psychological Assessment, 20, 172-179. doi:10.1027/1015-5759.20.3.172 (Pubitemid 38926596)
  • Olivares, J., Garcia-Lopez, L. J., Hidalgo, M. D., La Greca, A. M., Turner, S., & Beidel, D. (2002). A pilot study on normative data for two social anxiety measures: the social phobia and anxiety inventory and the social anxiety scale for adolescents. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 2, 467-476.
  • Olivares, J., Garcia-Lopez, L. J., Hidalgo, M. D., Turner, S., & Beidel, D. (1999). The Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory: Reliability and validity in an adolescent Spanish population. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 21, 67-78. doi:10.1023/A:1022864211676 (Pubitemid 29284342)
  • Olivares, J., Piqueras, J., & García-López, L. (2005). Escala para la Deteccion de la Ansiedad Social [Social Anxiety Screening Scale]. In P. Vera-Villarroel & L. Oblitas (Eds.), Manual de escalas y cuestionarios Iberoamericanos en psicologia clinica y de la salud. Bogota, Colombia: Editorial PSICOM Editores.
  • Olivares, J., Piqueras, J. A., & Rosa, A.I. (2006). Caracteristicas sociodemograficas y psicologicas de la fobia social en adolescentes [Sociodemographic and psychological features of social phobia in the adolescence]. Psicothema, 18, 207-212
  • Olivares, J., Piqueras, J. A., & Sanchez-Garcia, R. (2004). Escala para la Deteccion de la Ansiedad Social (EDAS): Estructura factorial y fiabilidad en una muestra de adolescente entre 14 y 18 afios [Social Anxiety Screening Scale (EDAS): Reliability and factorial structure in a sample of adolescents aged between 14 to 18 years old]. Psicologia Conductual, 12, 251-268. (Pubitemid 39524813)
  • Olivares, J., Rosa, A., & Piqueras, J. (2005). Deteccion temprana y tratamiento de adolescentes con fobia social generalizada [Early detection and treatment of adolescents with generalized social phobia]. Psicothema, 17, 1-8.
  • Olivares, J., Ruiz, J., Hidalgo, M. D., Garcia-Lopez, L. J., Rosa, A. I., & Piqueras, J. A. (2005). Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A): psychometric properties in a Spanish- speaking population. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 5, 85-97. (Pubitemid 43414460)
  • Olivares, J., Sánchez-García, R., & López-Pina, J. (2009). The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for children and adolescents. Psicothema, 21, 486-491.
  • Olivares, J., Sánchez-García, R., López-Pina, J. A., & Rosa-Alcázar, A. I. (2010). Psychometric properties of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for children in a Spanish sample. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 13, 961-969.
  • Olivares, J., Vera-Villarroel, P., Arriagada, D., Jorquera, D., Canales, R., Rosa-Alcázar, A., & López-Pina, J. A. (2009). Primeros resultados de la adaptación del Inventario de Ansiedad y Fobia Social en niños chilenos [The first results of the adaptation of the Anxiety and Social Phobia Inventory among Chilean children]. Anuario de Psicologia, 40, 63-74.
  • Olivares, J., Vera-Villarroel, P. Rosa-Alcázar, A. I., Kuhne, W., Montesinos, L., & López-Pina, J. A. (2010). El inventario de fobia social y ansiedad: Primeros resultados de confiabilidad y validez estructural en adolescentes chilenos [The social phobia and anxiety inventory: First results of the reliability and structural validity in Chilean adolescents]. Universitas Psychologica, 9, 153-164.
  • Olivares-Olivares, P. J., Rosa, A. I., & Olivares, J. (2007). Validez social de la intervención en adolescentes con fobia social: Padres frente a profesores [Social validity of adolescent intervention in social phobia: Parents vs. teachers]. Terapia Psicológica, 25, 63-71. doi:10.4067/S0718-48082007000100005
  • Piqueras, J., Olivares, J., Vera-Villarroel, P., Marzo, J., & Kuhne, W. (in press). Invarianza factorial de la Escala para la Deteccion de Ansiedad Social (EDAS) en adolescentes españoles y chilenos [Factorial Invariance of the Social Anxiety Screening Scale (EDAS) in Spanish and Chilean adolescents]. Anales de Psicologia.
  • Piqueras, J. A., Olivares, J., & Lopez-Pina, J. A. (2008). A new proposal for the subtypes of social phobia in a sample of Spanish adolescents. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22, 6711, doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2007.01.007 (Pubitemid 350278665)
  • Ranta, K., Kaltiala-Heino, R., Koivisto, A. M., Tuomisto, M. T., Pelkonen, M., & Marttunen, M. (2007). Age and gender differences in social anxiety symptoms during adolescence: the Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) as a measure. Psychiatry Research, 153, 261-270. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2006.12.006 (Pubitemid 47632801)
  • Rosa, A. I., Olivares, J., & Olivares-Olivares, P. J. (2007). El papel de la planificacion de la interaction en el tratamiento de adolescentes con fobia social generalizada [The role of planned interaction in the treatment of generalized social phobia]. Terapia Psicologica, 25, 205-212. doi:10.4067/S0718-48082007000200012
  • Sattora, A., & Bentler, P. (2001). A scaled difference chi-square test statistic for moment structure analysis. Psychometrika, 66, 507-514. doi:10.2139/ssrn. 199064 (Pubitemid 33570084)
  • Storch, E. A., Masia-Warner, C, Dent, H. C, Roberti, J. W., & Fisher, P. H. (2004). Psychometric evaluation of the Social Anxiety Scale for adolescents and the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for children: construct validity and normative data. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 18, 665-679. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2003.09.002 (Pubitemid 38951119)
  • Turner, S., Beidel, D., Dancu, C. V, & Stanley, M. A. (1989). An empirically derived inventory to measure social fears and anxiety: the social phobia and anxiety inventory. Psychological Assessment: A Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1, 35-40. doi:10.1037//1040-3590.1.1.35
  • Vera-Villarroel, P., Celis-Atenas, K., Cordova-Rubio, N., Buela-Casal, G, & Spielberger, C. D (2007). Analisis preliminar y datos normativos del Cuestionario de Ansiedad Estado-Rasgo en adolescentes y adultos de la ciudad de Santiago de Chile [Preliminary analysis and normative data of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) in adolescent and adults of Santiago, Chile]. Terapia Psicológica, 25, 155-162. doi:10.4067/S0718-48082007000200006
  • Vera-Villarroel, P., Olivares, J., Kuhne, W., Rosa, A., Santibáñez, C, & López-Pina, J. (2007). Propiedades psicometricas de la Escala para la Detección de la Ansiedad Social (EDAS) en una muestra de adolescentes chilenos [Psychometric properties of the Scale for Social Anxiety (EDAS) in a sample of Chilean adolescents]. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 7, 795-806.
  • Zhou, X., Xu, Q., Inglés, C. J., Hidalgo, M. D., & La Greca, A. M. (2008). Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Social Anxiety Scale for adolescents. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 39, 185-200. doi:10.1007/s10578-007-0079-0 (Pubitemid 351347940)
  • Zubeidat, I., Salinas, J. M., & Sierra, J. C. (2008). Exploration of the psychometric characteristics of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale in a Spanish adolescent sample. Depression and Anxiety, 25, 977-987. doi:10.1002/da.20404