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- Title
Initial Validation of the Children’s Worry Management Scale.
- Authors
Zeman, Janice; Cassano, Michael; Suveg, Cynthia; Shipman, Kimberly
- Abstract
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 .69 to .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.
- Subjects
WORRY in children; WORRY; HEALTH status indicators; PSYCHOMETRICS; EVALUATION of clinical trials; CHILD psychology research; EMOTIONS in children; MANAGEMENT
- Publication
Journal of Child & Family Studies, 2010, Vol 19, Issue 4, p381
- ISSN
1062-1024
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10826-009-9308-4