Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale , Second Edition (

RCMAS-2

Type of Measure

The RCMAS-2 is a brief self-report measure designed to be useful in the understanding and treatment of anxiety problems that students experience.

Theory

• updated version of original RCMAS developed by Reynolds and Richmond, 1978
• updated
• new standardization sample
• broadened content coverage
• improved support for interpretation of results

• changes in perception of children in the 21st century regarding their experience of anxiety (Reynolds & Richmond, 2008)
• social anxiety
• performance anxiety

About the Measure

• self-report screening instrument
• designed for use with children ages 6 to 19 years old
• 49 Yes or No statements
• Group or Individual administration
• Short Form Available

Short Form

• only first 10 items are administered
• less than 5 minutes
• limited amount of completion time
• brief measure of total anxiety
• research
• large group screening

Normative Sample Cont'd...

Norms stratified:

• ages 6-8
• ages 9-14
• ages 15-19

6 Scales

Normative Sample

• Defensiveness (DEF) Scale
• Inconsistent Responding (INC) Scale
• Total Anxiety (TOT) Scale
• Physiological Anxiety (PHY) Scale
• Worry (WOR) Scale
• Social Anxiety (SOC) Scale

• 2,368 individuals
• Age range: 6 to 19 years
• Representative of the U.S. population in terms of key demographic variables

Additionally...

• Performance Anxiety
• cluster of 10 content-based items

Validity

Reliability

Convergent Validity -

-.45 to .68 correlation with CDI

-moderate correlations were expected as constructs of depression and anxiety overlap in area of negative affectivity

Discriminant Validity -

--.37 to .32 with Conners' parent and teacher rating forms in same sample of children with ADHD

Internal Reliability

– the degree to which all the items on a scale consistently measure the same construct

• total anxiety reliability - .92
• scaled scores reliability - .75 to .86 (Reynolds & Richmond, 2008)

Scoring

Can be either hand scored or entered into the RCMAS-2 computer program for scoring

• Raw Scores - tally responses entered in each column
• Total Anxiety Raw Score
• PHY, WOR, SOC
• Select profile sheet

Scoring, cont'd...

• scores of 60 and below are considered in the normal range

• scores of 61-70 are considered in the moderate range

• scores of 71 or higher are considered in the high range

Test-Retest Reliability

• The scores from Time 1 and Time 2 can then be correlated in order to evaluate the test for stability over time
• .64 to .74 across total and sub scales (Reynolds & Richmond, 2008)
• examined using test-retest intervals of 2 weeks in a sample of 1,618 school-age children (Ang, Lowe, & Yusof, 2011)

Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale , Second Edition (RCMAS-2)

Kathleen Policastro