Evaluación de la ansiedad escolar: revisión de cuestionarios, inventarios y escalas

The aim of this study was twofold. First, it describes school anxiety questionnaires, inventories, and scales developed and validated for children and adolescents, including School Anxiety Questionnaire, Inventory of School Fears, School Situations Survey, Visual Analogue Scale for Anxiety-Revised, Magallanes Scale Problem of Anxiety, and Anxiety School Inventory. Second, we analyze the reliability (internal consistency and temporal stability) and validity (factorial structure, relationship with other questionnaires, relationship with other assessment procedures and discrimination between groups) of scores from these instruments, in order to know their psychometric properties and to take decisions about their usability in clinical or education practice based on empirical criteria. Results suggest that, at present, there are self-reports with satisfactory psychometric properties to enable reliable and valid interpretation of scores, thereby being useful both in clinical and educational practice.