ERIC Number: EJ891089
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Publication Date: 2010-Aug
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Initial Validation of the Children's Worry Management Scale
Zeman, Janice Lillian; Cassano, Michael; Suveg, Cynthia; Shipman, Kimberly
Journal of Child and Family Studies, v19 n4 p381-392 Aug 2010
We investigated the psychometric properties of a new instrument, the Children's Worry Management Scale (CWMS). The CWMS has three subscales that specify methods of regulating worry: inhibition (the suppression of worry), dysregulation (exaggerated displays of worry), and coping (constructive ways of managing worry). Using a Caucasian, middle-class sample of 214 children (M = 9 years, 1 month), Study 1 provides reliability and validity data through patterns of correlations to parent- and child-completed measures of emotion management and behavioral problems. Internal consistencies range from 0.69 to 0.74. Study 2 establishes discriminant validity by demonstrating that the CWMS Dysregulation and Coping subscales differentiated, in the expected directions, between a group of children (n = 27) with DSM-IV anxiety diagnoses and a control group of children with no psychological disorders.
Descriptors: Control Groups, Emotional Response, Validity, Coping, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Reliability, Psychological Patterns, Whites, Middle Class, Correlation, Self Control, Anxiety, Clinical Diagnosis, Behavior Problems
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