Investigate the Psychometric Properties of the Child Anxiety Life Interference Scale (Child Form)
Keywords:
Psychometric Properties, Life Interference, Child Anxiety, Child Anxiety Life InterferenceAbstract
Background and Objective: Anxiety is an important construct in childhood that has many negative psychological consequences. Therefore, the aim of this research was investigate the psychometric properties of the child anxiety life interference scale.
Methods and Materials: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive. The research population was children aged 10-15 years of Mazandaran province, which 370 people of them were selected with using multistage cluster random sampling method. The research instruments were included the child anxiety life interference scale (Lyneham et al., 2013), children's anxiety scale (Spence, 1997) and children's manifest anxiety revised scale (Reynolds & Richmond, 1978). The data of this study were analyzed with using exploratory factor analysis in SPSS software.
Findings: The findings showed that the child anxiety life interference scale had two factors of interference in functioning outside the home and interference in functioning inside the home. The factor loading of the items of both factors was higher than 0.50 and the reliability of the mentioned factors in girls and boys and the entire sample by Cronbach's alpha method was obtained in the range of 0.70 to 0.78. In addition, the convergent validity of the child anxiety life interference scale, interference in functioning outside the home and interference in functioning inside the home with the children's anxiety scale and its components and children's manifest anxiety revised scale was significant (P<0.001). Also, the reliability of the child anxiety life interference scale, interference in functioning outside the home and interference in functioning inside the home by the two-week test-retest method was calculated 0.85, 0.81 and 0.77, respectively.
Conclusion: Regarded to the appropriate psychometric indicators for the child anxiety life interference scale, health professionals and therapists can use this tool to measure the life interference in children anxiety.
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