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Why our children feel very during the school holidays ?

Why they not feel motivated to the school ?

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THE SPENCE
CHILDRENS
ANXIETY SCALE
(SCAS)

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Spence (1997) built and developed the

items about 80 with the help of four experts.
developed to assess the severity of anxiety
symptoms broadly in line with the
dimensions of anxiety disorder proposed by
the DSM-IV.

o consists of 44 items, of which 38 reflect specific

o symptoms of anxiety and 6 relate to positive,filler
items (11, 17, 26, 31, 38, and 43) to reduce
negative response bias.
o 4-point scale never=0, sometimes=1,
often=2, always=3
o Yield maximum possible score of 114
o 10 minutes to answer the questions
FREE! available at
http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~sues/scas/

Overall measure of anxiety with 6 subscales tapping

specific aspects of anxiety

USES OF THE SCALE

SCAS VALIDITY & RELIABILITY

SCAS RELIABILITY & VALIDITY

INTERNAL RELIABILITY COEFFICIENTS FOR

TOTAL SCALE AND SUBSCALES BY AGE GROUP
N
Total Sep Social OCD Panic/ Phys
GAD
AND GENDER
Scale Anx

Phobia

Ag

Injury

.92

.69

.70

.71

.80

.64

.73

Boys 12-15
1214 .93
years
Girls 8-11 years 1185 .93

.74

.73

.76

.84

.64

.76

.72

.75

.75

.83

.57

.75

Girls 12-15
years
Total Sample

1345 .92

.68

.72

.78

.81

.50

.78

4916 .93

.74

.74

.76

.82

.60

.77

Boys 8-11 years 1172

PARENT VERSION- SCORING SUB-SCALES

Sub-Scales

Questions

Generalized anxiety disorder

1+3+4+18+20+22

Panic disorder

12+19+25+27+28+30+32+33
+34

Social phobia

6+7+9+10+26+31

Separation anxiety

5+8+11+14+15+38

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

13+17+24+35+36+37

Child Version- Scoring SubScales

Sub-Scales
Questions
Physical injury fears

2+16+21+23+29

Generalized anxiety disorder

1+3+4+20+22+24

Panic disorder

13+21+28+30+32+34+36+37
+39

Social phobia

6+7+9+10+29+35

Separation anxiety

5+8+12+15+16+44

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

14+19+27+40+ 41+42

Physical injury fears

2+18+23+25+33

T-score of 60 as indicative of sub-clinical

or elevated levels of anxiety
o SCAS Pre School (Parents & Teachers)
o SCAS Boys & Girls Aged 8-11
o SCAS Boys & Girls Aged 12-15

TH

ADVANTAGES

o The SCAS is sensitive to treatment effects and is

frequently used for monitoring
treatment/interventions.
o The self-assessment version allows for not only
observable behaviors to be assessed by others.
o The SCAS is available online in various
languages.
o Less than 10 minutes to complete.
o It has been widely used in research.

DISADVANTAGES
oEach countries results indicates that
they have highest levels of anxiety.