Abbreviated version of Penn State Worry Questionnaire for Chinese adolescents

Age, gender and longitudinal invariance

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ID15518083
AuthorsShanshan Xie (0000-0002-9820-6407, Minjiang University), Huiwen Xiao (0000-0003-4312-978X, Renmin University of China), Rongmao Lin (0000-0002-4810-6088, Fujian Normal University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume14
Pages1086592-1086592
Publication date2023-03-22
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrontiers in Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1664-0640 • E-ISSN: 1664-0640
PublisherFrontiers Media (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1086592
PMID37032931
OpenAlexW4353065576
LanguageEN
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The abbreviated version of Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ-A) has been widely used to assess worry. However, its measurement invariance has been not yet warranted. With a cross-sectional and a longitudinal sample of Chinese adolescents (N1 = 1,329, N2 = 408), this study examined age, gender, and longitudinal invariance of PSWQ-A. Results supported strict invariance, including configural, metric, scalar, and error level, across gender and age in the cross-sectional sample; strict longitudinal measurement invariance was also supported in the longitudinal sample. This study suggests the application of the PSWQ-A in measuring adolescent worry and a basis for comparisons of different populations and occasions for worry

Anxiety · Confirmatory factor analysis · Developmental psychology · Longitudinal study · Measurement invariance · Metric (unit · Physics · Psychiatry · Sample (material · Statistics · Structural equation modeling · Worry · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Mathematics · Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies · Psychology

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