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A Psychometric Analysis Of The Social Anxiety Scale For Adolescents Among Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Caregiver–Adolescent Agreement, Factor Structure, And Validity, Hillary Schiltz, Brooke E. Magnus, Alana J. Mcvey, Angela Haendel, Bridget Dolan, Rachel E. Stanley, Kirsten S. Willar, Sheryl Pleiss, Audrey Meyer Carson, Mary E. Carlson, Christina Murphy, Elisabeth M. Vogt, Brianna D. Yund, Amy V. Van Hecke
A Psychometric Analysis Of The Social Anxiety Scale For Adolescents Among Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Caregiver–Adolescent Agreement, Factor Structure, And Validity, Hillary Schiltz, Brooke E. Magnus, Alana J. Mcvey, Angela Haendel, Bridget Dolan, Rachel E. Stanley, Kirsten S. Willar, Sheryl Pleiss, Audrey Meyer Carson, Mary E. Carlson, Christina Murphy, Elisabeth M. Vogt, Brianna D. Yund, Amy V. Van Hecke
College of Education Faculty Research and Publications
Social anxiety is common among adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). An ongoing challenge for both research and clinical practice in ASD is the assessment of anxious symptomatology. Despite its widespread use in samples of youth with ASD, the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) has not received psychometric evaluation within this population; thus, the validity of its use in research and clinical practice for ASD remains unclear. The present study conducted a psychometric analysis of caregiver and adolescent SAS-A forms in a sample of adolescents with ASD (N = 197). Results revealed (1) poor caregiver–adolescent item-level agreement, (2) …