Boys were also more likely to endorse study and
sociality problems.
Our scale measures
the sociality problems from the perspective of collectivist culture of China.
This further aggravates the association of anxiety and depression with study and
sociality problems among them.
The scales meet psychometric standards, and can serve as a reliable tool to measure the severity of common emotional, study and
sociality problems among Chinese adolescents.
With concurrent validity, the anxiety scale had a correlation coefficient of 0.78 (p < 0.0001) with SAS, the depression scale had a coefficient of 0.79 with SDS (p < 0.0001), and
the sociality problem scale had a coefficient of 0.47 (p < 0.0001) with an interpersonal sensitivity subscale of Chinese SCL -90-R.
Ability signifies the severity of anxiety, depression, study problem and
sociality problem, respectively, estimated from the item response model; it ranges from − 3 to 3.
Based on literature review and expert advice, common emotional and behavioural problems among Chinese middle school students were selected (emotional problems, learning problems and interpersonal problems), and four scales were formed (anxiety, depression, study problems and
sociality problem).
Results Four scales to measure anxiety, depression, study problem and
sociality problem were established.
The test information of anxiety, depression and study problem peaked among students with high level of the traits, while the test information of
sociality problem reached a peak among students with moderate level of the trait.
For
the sociality problem, the two factors signified sociality problems at home and at school, respectively.
Not exact matches
This is the first systematic study to develop and validate short scales to measure emotional (anxiety and depression) and behavioural (study and
sociality)
problems among adolescents in China.
The TIF of the
sociality scale reached a peak among students with a moderate level of
problem (ability around 0).