The present study confirmed previous work showing that anxiety and depressive symptoms are highly correlated but separable sets of symptoms in youth. The high correlation between the Anxiety and Affective Problems scales in this study is similar to other studies (e.g., Achenbach et al. 2005; Boots and Wareham 2010). Further, specificity analyses found that while some correlates of symptoms of anxiety and depression are transdiagnostic, others demonstrate specificity to symptoms of anxiety or depression.
