Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale: a Psychometric Examination in Chinese Youth

There remains a need for a disorder-specific inventory of children’s depression and anxiety that can reliably screen anxious and depressive disorder symptomatology in Chinese children. The Revised Child and Anxiety Depression Scale (RCADS) is a self-report questionnaire assessing anxiety and depress...

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Published in:Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment 2021-09, Vol.43 (3), p.707-716
Main Authors: Lu, Weili, Daleiden, Eric, Higa-McMillan, Charmaine, Liu, Shuyun, Leong, Alyssa, Almeida, Angela, Kelleher, Kerri
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Child Behavior Checklist
Children & youth
Clinical assessment
Clinical Psychology
Depressive personality disorders
Internalization
Mental depression
Personality and Social Psychology
Psychology
Quantitative psychology
Reliability
Self report
Youth
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Summary:There remains a need for a disorder-specific inventory of children’s depression and anxiety that can reliably screen anxious and depressive disorder symptomatology in Chinese children. The Revised Child and Anxiety Depression Scale (RCADS) is a self-report questionnaire assessing anxiety and depression in children (Chorpita et al., 2000 ; Piqueras et al., 2017 ). This study sought to evaluate its psychometric properties in a Mainland Chinese sample. Students from the 4th to 11th grades ( N  = 1001) participated in this study. Each of the RCADS subscales, by age and sex, possessed reliability coefficients ranging between .63 and .81. Means and standard deviations for RCADS subscales calculated for the age and sex sub-samples were reported. Participants reported slightly lower levels on five subscales than for Chorpita et al. ( 2000 ) normative sample. The scales were significantly and strongly correlated with the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) subscales (somatic, withdrawal, anxiety) as well as CBCL internalizing scores. Fit statistics suggested marginal to adequate fit for the six-factor model for the Chinese youth. The present study provides foundational support for the psychometric properties of the RCADS in a large sample of Chinese youth yet indicates that factor structure might be improved through enhanced sampling of culturally relevant symptom expressions.
ISSN:0882-2689
1573-3505
DOI:10.1007/s10862-021-09879-y