To evaluate the potential bias (racial and sexual) of items in the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, a scale used in the diagnosis and evaluation of emotional disturbance, a race-by-sex-by-items ANOVA was calculated from the responses of more than 5000 children with a Bonferroni-type adjusted follow-up test to identify specific biased items. Numerous indications of item bias were detected, though the direction of the bias tended to be balanced across groups. The race-by-sex-by-items interaction term, while highly statistically significant (p < .001), accounted for less than 1 percent of score variance.
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