Abstract：
The Youth Anxiety Measure for DSM-5 (YAM-5) is a self- and parent-report scale specifically developed to assess symptoms of major anxiety disorders (part 1 or YAM-5-I) and specific phobias/agoraphobia (part 2 or YAM-5-II) in children and adolescents in terms of the contemporary psychiatric classification system. Since its introduction, the measure has been increasingly used in research, making it feasible to provide a summary of its psychometric properties. The present article presents a systematic review of 20 studies that employed the YAM-5, involving 5325 young participants. Overall, the results supported the hypothesized factor structure of both parts of the measure, although there were also some studies that could not fully replicate the original five-factor model of YAM-5-I. The internal consistency of the YAM-5 was generally high for the total scores of both parts, while reliability coefficients for the subscales were more variable across studies. Research also obtained evidence for other psychometric properties, such as test-retest reliability, parent-child agreement, convergent/divergent validity, and discriminant validity. Results further revealed that girls tend to show significantly higher anxiety levels on the YAM-5 than boys. Overall, these findings indicate that the YAM-5 is a promising tool for assessing symptoms of anxiety disorders including specific phobias in young people. Some directions for future research with the YAM-5 and recommendations regarding the use of the measure are given.
摘要：
DSM-5青年焦虑量表（YAM-5）是一种自我和家长报告量表，专门用于评估主要焦虑症（第1部分或YAM-5-I）和特定恐惧症/广场恐惧症的症状（第2部分或YAM-5-II）根据当代精神病学分类系统在儿童和青少年中。自推出以来,该措施已越来越多地用于研究，使其能够提供其心理测量特性的总结。本文对20项采用YAM-5的研究进行了系统评价，涉及5325名年轻参与者。总的来说,结果支持度量的两个部分的假设因素结构，尽管也有一些研究无法完全复制YAM-5-I的原始五因素模型。YAM-5的内部一致性对于两个部分的总分通常很高，而各研究中分量表的信度系数差异更大。研究还获得了其他心理测量特性的证据，如测试-重测可靠性，亲子协议,收敛/发散有效性，和判别效度。结果进一步显示，女孩在YAM-5上的焦虑水平明显高于男孩。总的来说,这些研究结果表明,YAM-5是评估青少年焦虑症症状,包括特定恐惧症的一种有前景的工具.给出了YAM-5未来研究的一些方向，以及有关使用该措施的建议。
