Abstract

GORAYEB, Maria Angela M.  and  GORAYEB, Ricardo. Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) adapt to Portuguese in Brazil. Temas psicol. [online]. 2008, vol.16, n.1, pp. 35-45. ISSN 1413-389X.

The Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) was translated and adapted into Portuguese and administered to 374 students from 8 to 13 years old for standardization. Another 46 children were retested at intervals of one and five weeks for the assessment of the test-retest reliability. Means and standard deviations are presented. A Factor Analysis of the Portuguese standardized version of RCMAS was done in order to assess its Construct Validity. To asses the Concurrent Validity data of the instrument, parents of the participant children answered a questionnaire to investigate manifest anxiety symptoms presence, to correlate with children’s scale anxiety scores. The results show that the Brazilian version of the RCMAS has good psychometric properties, allowing its use in clinical and research, generally supporting the use of a scale by Brazilian mental health researchers in the children’s manifest anxiety assessment.

Keywords : Anxiety; Scale; Children; Assessment.