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Development of the Perth Adolescent Worry Scale (PAWS)
Tools to assess worry among adolescents exist but do not capture the content of worries. This study reports on the development of a brief, psychometrically sound measure of worry for use with adolescents. Phase 1 involved identification of 27 potential items from existing instruments as well as item...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8940868/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34415493 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00853-6 |
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author | Hunter, Simon C. Houghton, Stephen Kyron, Michael Lawrence, David Page, Andrew C. Chen, Wai Macqueen, Leslie |
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description | Tools to assess worry among adolescents exist but do not capture the content of worries. This study reports on the development of a brief, psychometrically sound measure of worry for use with adolescents. Phase 1 involved identification of 27 potential items from existing instruments as well as item generation identified in interviews with students, teachers, school psychologists, and parents. In Phase 2, the candidate items were completed by 835 Australian adolescents (317 males, 508 females, 10 unspecified; Mean age = 13.55, SD = 1.31) from Grades 5 to 10. These data were randomly split in half, and an exploratory factor analysis on the first half identified a two-factor solution with 12 items: Peer Relationships (6 items) and Academic Success and the Future (6 items). On the second half of the data, confirmatory factor analyses supported the factor structure and supported strong invariance across age, socioeconomic status, and presence/absence of a diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorder. Weak invariance was evident across sex. Differences across groups are reported as are correlations with indicators of psychological wellbeing. In conclusion, the Perth Adolescent Worry Scale provides both applied professionals and researchers with a short, easy-to-administer, and psychometrically strong instrument to evaluate adolescents’ everyday worries. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10802-021-00853-6. |
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spelling | pubmed-89408682022-04-07 Development of the Perth Adolescent Worry Scale (PAWS) Hunter, Simon C. Houghton, Stephen Kyron, Michael Lawrence, David Page, Andrew C. Chen, Wai Macqueen, Leslie Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol Article Tools to assess worry among adolescents exist but do not capture the content of worries. This study reports on the development of a brief, psychometrically sound measure of worry for use with adolescents. Phase 1 involved identification of 27 potential items from existing instruments as well as item generation identified in interviews with students, teachers, school psychologists, and parents. In Phase 2, the candidate items were completed by 835 Australian adolescents (317 males, 508 females, 10 unspecified; Mean age = 13.55, SD = 1.31) from Grades 5 to 10. These data were randomly split in half, and an exploratory factor analysis on the first half identified a two-factor solution with 12 items: Peer Relationships (6 items) and Academic Success and the Future (6 items). On the second half of the data, confirmatory factor analyses supported the factor structure and supported strong invariance across age, socioeconomic status, and presence/absence of a diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorder. Weak invariance was evident across sex. Differences across groups are reported as are correlations with indicators of psychological wellbeing. In conclusion, the Perth Adolescent Worry Scale provides both applied professionals and researchers with a short, easy-to-administer, and psychometrically strong instrument to evaluate adolescents’ everyday worries. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10802-021-00853-6. Springer US 2021-08-20 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8940868/ /pubmed/34415493 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00853-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Hunter, Simon C. Houghton, Stephen Kyron, Michael Lawrence, David Page, Andrew C. Chen, Wai Macqueen, Leslie Development of the Perth Adolescent Worry Scale (PAWS) |
title | Development of the Perth Adolescent Worry Scale (PAWS) |
title_full | Development of the Perth Adolescent Worry Scale (PAWS) |
title_fullStr | Development of the Perth Adolescent Worry Scale (PAWS) |
title_full_unstemmed | Development of the Perth Adolescent Worry Scale (PAWS) |
title_short | Development of the Perth Adolescent Worry Scale (PAWS) |
title_sort | development of the perth adolescent worry scale (paws) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8940868/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34415493 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00853-6 |
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