Performance of the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale in a Sample of Children and Adolescents from Poor Urban Communities in Cape Town

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Performance of the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale in a Sample of Children and Adolescents from Poor Urban Communities in Cape Town

The Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) is regularly used with South African children, although its performance in this context has yet to be empirically evaluated. This study assessed the basic psychometric properties of the RCMAS using data collected in a large study examining the me...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Boyes, Mark, Cluver, L.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Hogrefe Publishing 2013
Subjects:	anxiety adolescents psychometric South Africa measurement
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40246

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