2005-11-01
Concurrent validity of the DSM-IV scales Affective Problems and Anxiety Problems of the Youth Self-Report
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Behaviour Research and Therapy , Volume 43 - Issue 11 p. 1485- 1494
This study investigated the concurrent validity of the DSM-IV scales Anxiety Problems and Affective Problems of the Youth Self-Report (YSR) in a community sample of Dutch young adolescents aged 10-12 years. We first examined the extent to which the YSR/DSM-IV scales reflect symptoms of DSM-IV anxiety disorders and DSM-IV Major Depressive Disorder, assessed with the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS). Second, we examined whether the association between the YSR/DSM-IV scales and the RCADS scales was stronger than the association between the empirically derived YSR narrow-band scales Anxious/Depressed and Withdrawn and the same RCADS scales. Results showed that the YSR/DSM-IV scale Affective Problems had a stronger association with symptoms of DSM-IV Major Depressive Disorder than the YSR narrow-band scales Withdrawn and Anxious/Depressed. However, the YSR/DSM-IV scale Anxiety Problems had a weaker association with symptoms of DSM-IV anxiety disorders, compared to the YSR narrow-band scale Anxious/Depressed. It was concluded that the construction of the DSM-IV scales improved the correspondence with DSM-IV Major Depressive Disorder, but not with DSM-IV anxiety disorders.
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doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2004.11.005, hdl.handle.net/1765/64870 | |
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van Lang, N., Ferdinand, R., Oldehinkel, A., Ormel, J. H., & Verhulst, F. (2005). Concurrent validity of the DSM-IV scales Affective Problems and Anxiety Problems of the Youth Self-Report. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43(11), 1485–1494. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2004.11.005 |