Desenvolvimento da versão em português do Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI)

Validation of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C) in a sample of Brazilian children.

The purpose of the present study was to examine the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C), an instrument developed in the United States and applied to a sample of Brazilian schoolchildren. The process included the translation of the original material from English into Portuguese by two bilingual psychiatrists and a back tra...

Measurement invariance of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory.

The Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI) is a commonly used self-report measure of social phobia that has demonstrated adequate reliability, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and criterion-related validity. However, research has yet to address whether this measure functions equivalently in (a) individuals with and without a diagnosis of social phobia and (b) males and females. E...

Psychometric properties of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory – Revised (OCI-R) Propriedades psicométricas da versão em português do Brasil da Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory – Revised (OCI-R)

Objective: The present study was designed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the ObsessiveCompulsive Inventory – Revised. Method: The Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory – Revised was administered toa total of 260 participants: a clinical sample of 130 patients with anxiety disorders (64 with a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder patients, 33 diagno...

Shyness, Social Anxiety, and Social Phobia

Parental assessment of childhood social phobia: psychometric properties of the social phobia and anxiety inventory for children-parent report.

Validity and parent-child agreement of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children-Parent Report (SPAI-C-P) were examined in a racially diverse sample of 158 students in Grades 5 through 8 (87 girls; ages 10 to 14; M = 11.53) and their caregivers. Children completed the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C), and caregivers completed the SPAI-C-P and the Child Behavi...