Social desirability and self-reported anxiety in children: An analysis of the RCMAS lie scale

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 311-317

  Dadds, Mark R ^a   Perrin, Sean ^b   Yule, William ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Lie scores; RCMAS; Social desirability

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; TEACHER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANIFEST ANXIETY SCALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EID: 0031827293     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022610702439     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. American Psychiatric Association. (1980). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
2. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
3. Boehnke, K., Silbereisen, R. K., Reynolds, C. R., & Richmond, B. O., (1986). What I think and feel: German experience with the Revised form of the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 7, 553-560.
4. Dadds, M. R., Spence, S. H., Holland, D., Barrett, P. M., & Laurens, K. (1997). Early intervention and prevention of anxiety disorders: A controlled study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
5. Davis, P. J. (1987). Repression and the inaccessibility of affective memories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 585-593.
6. Davis, P. J. (1991). Gender differences in autobiographical memory for childhood emotional experiences. Paper presented to the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Theoretical Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory, Cumbria, England.
7. Ferrando, P. J. (1994). Factorial structure of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale in a Spanish sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 16, 693-699.
8. Fritz, G. K., Spirito, A., & Yeung, A. (1994). Utility of the repressive defense style construct in childhood. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 23, 306-313.
9. Hagborg, W. J. (1991). The Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale and social desirability. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 51, 423-427.
10. Hagborg, W. J. (1992). Prevalence and correlates of self-reported depressive mood among seriously emotionally disturbed adolescents. Psychological Reports, 70, 23-26.
11. Joiner, T. E., Schmidt, K. L., & Schmidt, N. B. (1996). Low-end specificity of childhood measures of emotional distress: Dif- ferential effects for depression and anxiety. Journal of Personality Assessment, 67, 258-271.
12. Mattison, R. E., Bagnato, S. J., & Brubaker, B. H. (1988). Diagnostic utility of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2, 147-155.
13. Perrin, S, & Last, C. G. (1992). Do childhood anxiety measures measure anxiety? Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 20, 567-578.
14. Reynolds, C. R., & Paget, K. D. (1981). Factor analysis of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 49, 352-359.
15. Reynolds, C. R., & Paget, K. D. (1983). National normative and reliability data for the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 49, 352-359.
16. Reynolds, C. R., & Richmond, B. O. (1979). What I think and feel: A revised measure of children's manifest anxiety. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 6, 271-280.
17. Richmond, B. O., Rodrigo, G., & Rodrigo, M. (1988) Factor structure of a Spanish version of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 43, 281-283.
18. Silverman, W. K. (1994). Structured diagnostic interviews. In T. H. Ollendick, N. J. King, & W. Yule (Eds.), International handbook of phobic and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents (pp. 293-315). New York: Plenum Press.
19. Singer, J. L. (ed). (1990). Repression and dissociation: Implications for personality theory, psychopathology, and health. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
20. Weinberger, D. A. (1990). The construct validity of the repressive coping style. In J. L. Singer (Ed.). (1990). Repression and dissociation: Implications for personality theory, psychopathology, and health. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
21. Wilson, D., Chibaiwa, D., Majoni, C., Masukume, C., & Nkoma, E. (1990). Reliability and factor structure of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale in Zimbabwe. Personality and Individual Differences, 11, 365-369.