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Discriminant Validity of Self-Reported Anxiety and Depression in Children: Generalizability to Clinic Referred and Ethnically Diverse Populations

Kenneth J. Ruggiero

Tracy L. Morris

West Virginia University

Deborah C. Beidel

University of Maryland-College Park

Joseph R. Scotti

West Virginia University

Susan V. McLeer

State University of New York at Buffalo

In the present study, we investigated the relation of childhood anxiety and depression with 240 children (56% clinical referrals, 44% nonclinical referrals) ages 8 to 14 years. Participants were administered the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC) and the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), two commonly used self-report measures of childhood anxiety and depression. The principal focus of this study was to examine the discriminant validity of these measures at the level of individual items through factor analysis. Although high correlations were found between overall scores on the CDI and STAIC, factor analysis yielded distinct factors of anxiety and depression. Thus, with the inclusion of clinic-referred and ethnically diverse groups, the present study provided support for the generalizability of findings of similar research with non-clinic-referred, primarily-Caucasian samples.

Key Words: anxiety • depression • validity • generalizability • school-age children

Assessment, Vol. 6, No. 3, 259-267 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/107319119900600306
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