Measuring Negative and Positive Thoughts in Children: An Adaptation of the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS)

The aim of this study is to describe the factor structure and psychometric properties of an extended version of the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS), the CATS-Negative/Positive (CATS-N/P). The CATS was originally designed to assess negative self-statements in children and adolescents. Howe...

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Autores principales: Hogendoorn, Sanne M., Wolters, Lidewij H., Vervoort, Leentje, Prins, Pier J. M., Boer, Frits, Kooij, Emelie, de Haan, Else
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20930924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10608-010-9306-2
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author Hogendoorn, Sanne M.
Wolters, Lidewij H.
Vervoort, Leentje
Prins, Pier J. M.
Boer, Frits
Kooij, Emelie
de Haan, Else
author_facet Hogendoorn, Sanne M.
Wolters, Lidewij H.
Vervoort, Leentje
Prins, Pier J. M.
Boer, Frits
Kooij, Emelie
de Haan, Else
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description The aim of this study is to describe the factor structure and psychometric properties of an extended version of the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS), the CATS-Negative/Positive (CATS-N/P). The CATS was originally designed to assess negative self-statements in children and adolescents. However, positive thoughts also play a major role in childhood disorders such as anxiety and depression. Therefore, positive self-statements were added to the CATS. The CATS-N/P was administered to a community sample of 554 children aged 8–18 years. The results of a confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the positive self-statements formed a separate and psychometrically sound factor. Internal and short-term test–retest reliability was good. Boys reported more hostile and positive thoughts than girls; and younger children reported more negative thoughts concerning physical threat, social threat, and failure than older children. In conclusion, the results of the current study support the use of the CATS-N/P for the measurement of positive and negative thoughts in children. The application of the CATS-N/P can facilitate further research on cognitive factors in different childhood disorders.
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spelling pubmed-29393332010-10-05 Measuring Negative and Positive Thoughts in Children: An Adaptation of the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS) Hogendoorn, Sanne M. Wolters, Lidewij H. Vervoort, Leentje Prins, Pier J. M. Boer, Frits Kooij, Emelie de Haan, Else Cognit Ther Res Original Article The aim of this study is to describe the factor structure and psychometric properties of an extended version of the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS), the CATS-Negative/Positive (CATS-N/P). The CATS was originally designed to assess negative self-statements in children and adolescents. However, positive thoughts also play a major role in childhood disorders such as anxiety and depression. Therefore, positive self-statements were added to the CATS. The CATS-N/P was administered to a community sample of 554 children aged 8–18 years. The results of a confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the positive self-statements formed a separate and psychometrically sound factor. Internal and short-term test–retest reliability was good. Boys reported more hostile and positive thoughts than girls; and younger children reported more negative thoughts concerning physical threat, social threat, and failure than older children. In conclusion, the results of the current study support the use of the CATS-N/P for the measurement of positive and negative thoughts in children. The application of the CATS-N/P can facilitate further research on cognitive factors in different childhood disorders. Springer US 2010-04-06 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2939333/ /pubmed/20930924 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10608-010-9306-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Hogendoorn, Sanne M.
Wolters, Lidewij H.
Vervoort, Leentje
Prins, Pier J. M.
Boer, Frits
Kooij, Emelie
de Haan, Else
Measuring Negative and Positive Thoughts in Children: An Adaptation of the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS)
title Measuring Negative and Positive Thoughts in Children: An Adaptation of the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS)
title_full Measuring Negative and Positive Thoughts in Children: An Adaptation of the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS)
title_fullStr Measuring Negative and Positive Thoughts in Children: An Adaptation of the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS)
title_full_unstemmed Measuring Negative and Positive Thoughts in Children: An Adaptation of the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS)
title_short Measuring Negative and Positive Thoughts in Children: An Adaptation of the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS)
title_sort measuring negative and positive thoughts in children: an adaptation of the children’s automatic thoughts scale (cats)
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20930924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10608-010-9306-2
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