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01-08-2010 | Original Paper

Initial Validation of the Children’s Worry Management Scale

Auteurs: Janice Lillian Zeman, Michael Cassano, Cynthia Suveg, Kimberly Shipman

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies | Uitgave 4/2010

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.

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Titel: Initial Validation of the Children’s Worry Management Scale
Auteurs: Janice Lillian Zeman
Michael Cassano
Cynthia Suveg
Kimberly Shipman
Publicatiedatum: 01-08-2010
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies / Uitgave 4/2010
Print ISSN: 1062-1024
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2843
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-009-9308-4

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