Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
ARTICLESDevelopment, Reliability, and Validity of the Children's Aggression Scale-Parent Version
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PART 1: DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAS-P
To help identify the range of behaviors that characterize aggression, several commonly used scales for assessing aggression in adults (e.g., Buss and Durkee, 1957;Buss and Perry, 1992;Yudofsky et al., 1986) were systematically reviewed. Subsequently, five general areas were selected as being representative of major domains within which aggressivity is frequently manifested by school-age children. The 33-item CAS-P assesses the frequency of aggressive acts in these five separate domains: Verbal
Method
Participants and Assessment Procedures. Participants were 73 boys (n = 66) and girls (n = 7), aged 7 to 11 years, who were referred to a research program for children with externalizing behavior disorders at a major metropolitan medical center. The mean age (SD) of the sample was 9.2 (1.3) years. The sample was ethnically diverse; 40% of the children were Latino, 33% were white, 24% were African American, and 3% were of mixed or Asian ancestry.
Diagnoses for each child were made on the basis of
DISCUSSION
The CAS-P was designed to provide a measure of childhood aggression which can account for an array of factors such as severity, frequency, pervasiveness, and diversity of aggression, while being less confounded by other nonaggressive disruptive behaviors. Overall, the data indicate that the scale as a whole has excellent internal consistency and that this measure of error is at least adequate for all of the subscales. Furthermore, differentiation between diagnostic subgroups and correlations
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This research was supported by NIMH grant 1 RO1 MH46448 and The William T. Grant Foundation's Faculty Scholar's Award Program. Copies of the scale can be obtained upon request from Dr. Halperin.