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Development and validation of a measure of childrens automatic thoughts: the childrens automatic thoughts scale.
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The aim of this study was to describe the history, factor structure and psychometric properties of the Childrens Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS). The CATS is a self-report measure designed to assess a wide range of negative self-statements in children ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2002Sep
in Journal: Behav Res Ther
(Language : eng)
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2002 Sep;40(9):1091-109
Development and validation of a measure of children's automatic thoughts: the children's automatic thoughts scale.
Schniering CA, Rapee RM
Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The aim of this study was to describe the history, factor structure and psychometric properties of the Children's Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS). The CATS is a self-report measure designed to assess a wide range of negative self-statements in children and adolescents. The results of confirmatory factor analyses supported four distinct but strongly correlated factors relating to automatic thoughts on physical threat, social threat, personal failure and hostility. The internal consistency of the total score and subscales was high and test-retest reliability at 1 and 3 months was acceptable. The CATS effectively discriminated between control children and adolescents, and clinically anxious, depressed, or behavior disorder children and adolescents, and showed good discriminant validity across clinical subgroups on the subscales. Results suggest that the CATS is a promising instrument in the assessment of a range of negative automatic thoughts across both internalizing and externalizing problems in young people.
PMID : 12296494 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
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| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| C A | Schniering | CA |
| R M | Rapee | RM |
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Category links from this article:- Adolescent
- Affect
- Automatism - psychology
- Child
- Cognition
- Humans
- Psychometrics
- Questionnaires
- Reproducibility of Results
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