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Peer reviewedWinkley, Linda – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1982
The wishes of 403 normal boys and girls ages 10 to ll were compared with the wishes of 139 boys and girls who were seen by a psychiatrist. Significant differences between the wishes of the two groups, as well as between normal boys and girls, were found. (MP)
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Psychiatry
Peer reviewedBirleson, Peter – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1981
Aimed to determine whether the diagnosis of depressive disorder in childhood has construct validity and to develop a self-rating scale for depression in childhood. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Psychology
Peer reviewedWadsworth, Jane; And Others – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1985
Within a representative national sample, comparisons indicated that children from one-parent families scored worse on tests than children from two-parent families. Children from one-parent and step-parent families were perceived as more "anti-social" than were others, and children in one-parent families were seen as marginally more…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Family Structure
Peer reviewedClark, David A.; Bolton, Derek – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1985
Comparisons of families with an obsessional adolescent or an anxious, nonobsessional child indicated that scores on the Leyton Obsessional Inventory were similar in the two groups, though higher than those of normal adults on trait and resistance scales. Obsessional adolescents perceived their parents to hold significantly higher career demands…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adolescents, Anxiety, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedWilliams, J. Mark G.; And Others – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1985
Treatment refusal was found to be associated with fear of "medical" people, intolerance for pain or discomfort, and difficulty in approaching novelty or adapting to change. In contrast to parents of controls, parents of treatment refusing children rated them as having greater difficulty in playing with unfamiliar children and negative in…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Children, Comparative Analysis, Dental Clinics
Peer reviewedWood, H.A.; Wood, D.J. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1984
Experimentally tests for direction of causality in negative correlations previously found between a measure of teacher control of conversation and measures of deaf primary school children's initiative and loquacity. Results show that as teachers change style, their students follow them, exhibiting changes in initiative and mean length of turn. (RH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Classroom Communication, Communication Research
Peer reviewedWeir, Kirk; Duveen, Gerard – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1981
Describes development of a new rating scale for use by teachers. The Prosocial Behaviour Questionnaire is designed for use in the investigation of elementary school children's behavior. A copy of the rating scale is included. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
