The What I Think and Feel, a measure of anxiety in children, was administered to similar groups of 5th-and 6th-grade children in the U S , Canada, and Mexico. All children expressed similar levels of anxiety, and there were no significant differences attributable to national, grade, or sex differences. On the Lie Scale of the WITF, the three groups of children differed significantly, suggesting that cultural differences in social desirability may exist. Some developmental differences for males and females of these three cultures did occur in both anxiety and social desirability as measured by the Lie Scale.
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