TY - JOUR
T1 - The factor structure of the Fear Survey Schedule for Children-II in Trinidadian children and adolescents
AU - Fisher, April Bryington
AU - Schaefer, Barbara A.
AU - Watkins, Marley W.
AU - Worrell, Frank C.
AU - Hall, Tracey E.
N1 - Funding Information:
The data were collected as part of a project to obtain national normative data for assessment tools to be used in Trinidad and Tobago. Data collection was supported by a UNICEF grant (BARA/1999/0358). The first author would like to express her gratitude to James C. DiPerna for his guidance and helpful suggestions during completion of the project. A version of this paper was previously reported as the first author's Master's thesis.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Part of understanding normal and abnormal fear in children and adolescents is having knowledge of how they acquire fears and of how fears change across development. One way to examine the relative contributions of heredity and environment to the experience of fear is to study fear across cultures. The Fear Survey Schedule for Children-II [FSSC-II; Gullone, E., & King, N. J. (1992). Psychometric evaluation of a revised fear survey schedule for children and adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 33, 987-998] is one measure that has some evidence for cross-cultural validity. The present analysis examined the factor structure of the FSSC-II scores of 884 Trinidadian children and adolescents. Factor consistency across age, sex, and nationality (Trinidadian and American) was examined by calculating the coefficients of congruence for each pair of conceptually similar factors. Results indicated a five-factor structure for the overall sample. Although the solution was conceptually similar to those reported in other studies that used versions of the FSSC, the obtained structure was not congruent across age, sex, or nationality.
AB - Part of understanding normal and abnormal fear in children and adolescents is having knowledge of how they acquire fears and of how fears change across development. One way to examine the relative contributions of heredity and environment to the experience of fear is to study fear across cultures. The Fear Survey Schedule for Children-II [FSSC-II; Gullone, E., & King, N. J. (1992). Psychometric evaluation of a revised fear survey schedule for children and adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 33, 987-998] is one measure that has some evidence for cross-cultural validity. The present analysis examined the factor structure of the FSSC-II scores of 884 Trinidadian children and adolescents. Factor consistency across age, sex, and nationality (Trinidadian and American) was examined by calculating the coefficients of congruence for each pair of conceptually similar factors. Results indicated a five-factor structure for the overall sample. Although the solution was conceptually similar to those reported in other studies that used versions of the FSSC, the obtained structure was not congruent across age, sex, or nationality.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.janxdis.2005.11.003
DO - 10.1016/j.janxdis.2005.11.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 16337771
AN - SCOPUS:33746009148
SN - 0887-6185
VL - 20
SP - 740
EP - 759
JO - Journal of Anxiety Disorders
JF - Journal of Anxiety Disorders
IS - 6
ER -
