Reliability and validity of the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale and the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders in German children

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-18

  Essau, Cecilia A ^a   Muris, Peter ^b   Ederer, Elfriede M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anxiety symptoms; Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders; Spence Children's Anxiety Scale

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSESSION; PANIC; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREEN FOR CHILD ANXIETY RELATED EMOTIONAL DISORDERS; SCREENING; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SPENCE CHILDREN ANXIETY SCALE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0036521236     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7916(02)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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