Psychometric properties of the Youth Anxiety Measure for DSM-5 (YAM-5) in a community sample

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 116, Issue , 2017, Pages 258-264

  Simon, Ellin ^a   Bos, Arjan E R ^a   Verboon, Peter ^a   Smeekens, Sanny ^a   Muris, Peter ^b,c,d  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d Virenze RIAGG Maastricht   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Children; Community sample; Confirmatory factor analysis; DSM 5; Psychometric properties; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018246141     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.058     Document Type: Article

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