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Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC)

Title of the Portuguese Version

Escala Multidimensional de Ansiedade para Crianças

Original Version

March, J. S., Parker, J. D., Sullivan, K., Stallings, P., & Conners, C. K. (1997)

Portuguese Version

Salvador, M. C., Matos, A. P., Oliveira, S., March, J., Arnarson, E., Carey, S., & Craighead, E. (2017)

General Description

The MASC is a self-report scale for assessing anxiety in children and adolescents.It has 39 items, distributed across four major factors, three of which have sub factors. It has been considered a reliable scale, with a good internal consistency, validity and test-retest reliability. Its Portuguese version, validated in adolescents from 12 to 18 years old,confirmed these characteristics, although itsfactor structure included a third order factor, which was not the case in the original scale

References

  • March, J. S., Parker, J. D., Sullivan, K., Stallings, P., & Conners, C. K. (1997). The Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC): Factor structure, reliability, and validity. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 36, 554-565. doi:10.1097=00004583-199704000-00019

  • Salvador, M. C., Matos, A. P., Oliveira, S., March, J., Arnarson, E., & Craighead, E. (2017). A Escala Multidimensional de Ansiedade para Crianças (MASC): Propriedades psicométricas e análise fatorial confirmatória numa amostra de adolescentes portugueses. Revista Iberoamericana de Diagnóstico y Evaluación Psicologica, 45, 33-46. doi:10.21865/RIDEP45.3.03 http://hdl.handle.net/10316/46923

Contacts

Maria do Céu Salvador – ceu@fpce.uc.pt