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Initial Validation of the Children's Worry Management Scale
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Zeman, Janice Lillian; Cassano, Michael; Suveg, Cynthia; Shipman, Kimberly – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 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…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Emotional Response, Validity, Coping
"Talking like a Book?" Socioeconomic Differences of Maternal Conversational Styles in Co-Constructing Personal Narratives with Young Taiwanese Children
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Lai, Wen-Feng – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
The study investigated how Taiwanese mothers with different socioeconomic statuses (SES) co-constructed personal experience with their children in narrative conversations. Forty dyads recruited in Taiwan participated in the study, half from middle-class families and half from the working-class. Narrative conversations in Mandarin Chinese were…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Speech Communication, Mothers, Foreign Countries
"Happier than Non-Christians": Collective Emotions and Symbolic Boundaries among Evangelical Christians
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Wilkins, Amy C. – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2008
This article uses qualitative data (participant-observation and interviews) to examine happiness talk in a university-based evangelical Christian organization (University Unity). Unity Christians claim that they are happier than non-Christians, but rather than viewing their happiness as a mental health outcome of their participation in a religious…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Emotional Response, Religious Organizations, Psychological Patterns
Gender Differences in the Relationship between Attention Problems and Expressive Language and Emerging Academic Skills in Preschool-Aged Children
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Zevenbergen, Andrea A.; Ryan, Meghan M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
This study examined the relationship between attention problems and expressive language and academic readiness skills in preschool-aged children from middle-class families. Forty-three children (44% female) were assessed individually for expressive language skills and knowledge of basic academic concepts (e.g. colours, letters and numbers). The…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Reading Readiness, Child Behavior, Attention Deficit Disorders
Development of Number Combination Skill in the Early School Years: When Do Fingers Help?
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Jordan, Nancy C.; Kaplan, David; Ramineni, Chaitanya; Locuniak, Maria N. – Developmental Science, 2008
Children's change over time in frequency of finger use on number combinations was examined in relation to their change in accuracy. Performance was tracked longitudinally over 11 time points, from the beginning of kindergarten (mean age = 5.7 years) to the end of second grade (n= 217). Accuracy in number combinations increased steadily during the…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Middle Class, Females, Kindergarten