Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents: Factorial invariance and latent mean differences across gender and age in Spanish adolescents |
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| Authors: | Candido J Ingles Annette M La Greca Juan C Marzo Luis J Garcia-Lopez Jose M Garcia-Fernandez |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 807;2. Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 812;3. Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 807;4. Department of psychiatry, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 801;1. Department of Neurology, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Neurology, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Neurology, Chonbuk National University School of Medicine, Jeonju, Republic of Korea;4. Department of Neurology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea;5. Department of Neurology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea;6. Department Neurology, Dankook University Hospital, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Republic of Korea;7. Department of Neurology, Chonnam National University Hospital, Kwangju, Republic of Korea;8. Department of Neurology, Gil Medical Center, Gachon University of Medicine and Science, Incheon, Republic of Korea;9. Departments of Neurology, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Pusan, Republic of Korea;10. Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea;11. Department of Neurology, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Changwon, Republic of Korea;12. Department of Neurology, Korea University Anam Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea;13. Department of Neurology, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea;14. Department of Neurology, Kangwon National University School of Medicine, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea;15. Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea |
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| Abstract: | Little is known about the factorial invariance across gender and age for self-report measures of social anxiety in adolescence. This study examined the factorial invariance and latent mean differences of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) across gender and age groups in 1570 Spanish adolescents (54% girls), ranging in age from 14 to 17 years. Equality of factor structures was compared using multi-group confirmatory factor analyses. Measurement invariance for the correlated three-factor model of the SAS-A was found across gender and age samples. Analyses of latent mean differences revealed that girls exhibited higher means than boys on two SAS-A subscales, Fear of Negative Evaluation and Social Avoidance and Distress-New (SAD-New). In addition, on the SAD-New subscale, the structured means significantly diminished from 14-year olds to 16- and 17-year olds and from 15-year olds to 17-year olds. Findings are discussed in terms of the use of the SAS-A with Spanish adolescents. |
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