Anxiety in Youth With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder: Examination of Factorial Equivalence

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 40-53

  White, Susan W ^a   Lerner, Matthew D ^b   McLeod, Bryce D ^c   Wood, Jeffrey J ^d   Ginsburg, Golda S ^e   Kerns, Connor ^f   Ollendick, Thomas ^a   Kendall, Philip C ^g   Piacentini, John ^d   Walkup, John ^h   Compton, Scott ⁱ  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

ⁱ DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Assessment; Autism; Invariance; MASC

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUVENILE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANXIETY SCALE FOR CHILDREN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; COMPLICATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 84919621471     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2014.05.005     Document Type: Article

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