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ERIC Number: EJ799129
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Apr
Pages: 7
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1537-4416
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Psychometric Properties of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire for Children in a Large Clinical Sample
Pestle, Sarah L.; Chorpita, Bruce F.; Schiffman, Jason
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, v37 n2 p465-471 Apr 2008
The Penn State Worry Questionnaire for Children (PSWQ-C; Chorpita, Tracey, Brown, Collica, & Barlow, 1997) is a 14-item self-report measure of worry in children and adolescents. Although the PSWQ-C has demonstrated favorable psychometric properties in small clinical and large community samples, this study represents the first psychometric evaluation of the PSWQ-C in a large clinical sample (N = 491). Factor analysis indicated a two-factor structure, in contrast to all previously published findings on the measure. The PSWQ-C demonstrated favorable psychometric properties in this sample, including high internal consistency, high convergent validity with related constructs, and acceptable discriminative validity between diagnostic categories. The performance of the 3 reverse-scored items was closely examined, and results indicated retaining all 14 items. (Contains 6 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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