TY - JOUR
T1 - The Structure of Negative Self-Statements in Children and Adolescents
T2 - A Confirmatory Factor-Analytic Approach
AU - Schniering, Carolyn A.
AU - Rapee, Ronald M.
PY - 2004/2
Y1 - 2004/2
N2 - The aim of this study was to examine the nature and organization of a range of negative self-statements in children and adolescents, using a structural equations/confirmatory factor-analytic approach. A community sample of 978 children aged 7-16 years completed a questionnaire about the frequency with which they experienced a broad range of negative automatic thoughts. The outcome of comparative modeling provided strongest support for a model in which 4 distinct cognitive factors were all related to a single higher order factor. The 4 lower order factors related to cognitions on social threat, physical threat, personal failure, and hostility. The pattern of results was consistent across age and gender. Results were consistent with assumptions of cognitive specificity models of psychopathology, on the latent structure of automatic thoughts in children and adolescents.
AB - The aim of this study was to examine the nature and organization of a range of negative self-statements in children and adolescents, using a structural equations/confirmatory factor-analytic approach. A community sample of 978 children aged 7-16 years completed a questionnaire about the frequency with which they experienced a broad range of negative automatic thoughts. The outcome of comparative modeling provided strongest support for a model in which 4 distinct cognitive factors were all related to a single higher order factor. The 4 lower order factors related to cognitions on social threat, physical threat, personal failure, and hostility. The pattern of results was consistent across age and gender. Results were consistent with assumptions of cognitive specificity models of psychopathology, on the latent structure of automatic thoughts in children and adolescents.
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U2 - 10.1023/B:JACP.0000007583.90038.7a
DO - 10.1023/B:JACP.0000007583.90038.7a
M3 - Article
C2 - 14998114
AN - SCOPUS:0842278669
SN - 0091-0627
VL - 32
SP - 95
EP - 109
JO - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
JF - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
IS - 1
ER -