Measuring anxiety in youth with learning disabilities: Reliability and validity of the multidimensional anxiety scale for children (MASC)

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 501-514

  Thaler, Nicholas S ^a   Kazemi, Ellie ^b   Wood, Jeffrey J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child anxiety; Learning disabilities; MASC; Multi trait multi method matrix; Parent child agreement

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; PARENTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77956181959     PISSN: 0009398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-010-0182-5     Document Type: Article

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