Preliminary norms and technical data for use of the Revised-Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale with kindergarten children

Reynolds, Cecil R.; Bradley, Michael E.; Steele, Carol T.

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“…In the kindergarten and primary grades, the administrator read all questions to the students while they marked yes or no in response to each question. Previous research with the scale (Reynolds, Bradley, & Steel, 1980) indicates that this age group understands and responds reliably to the scale under these conditions. The children marked their own race, sex, and age on the test form.…”

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Dimensions of Anxiety Among High IQ Children

Scholwinski

Reynolds

1985

Gifted Child Quarterly

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Responses of 584 high IQ children to the 37 item Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale were submitted to a factor analysis. The five factors that emerged (Physiological, Worry/Oversensitivity, Concentration, Lie 1, and Lie 2) were shown to be highly similar to the factors found with the normative sample. Coefficients of congruence revealed significant correspondence between all factors for the high IQ and normative group. Means and standard deviations for males and females at each age group are also reported, revealing lower levels of anxiety for the high IQ group on all variables. Reliability estimates for each age group on the three subscales of anxiety and for the total Anxiety Scale support the clinical and research use of this new scale in work with high IQ children.Identifying intellectually superior students and providing them with an appropriate education has been an important goal for educators but is presently in another cyclical period of emphasis. However, relatively little research exists concerning the various personality dimensions and affective characteristics of intellectually gifted children or whether these dimensions differ from those of children in other IQ ranges. Furthermore, the instruments commonly used to assess these dimensions have not been investigated adequately regarding validity for high IQ children nor for potential bias in their use with high IQ groups.Popular mythology has held that gifted people, especially those labeled &dquo;genius,&dquo; are particularly emotionally unstable. Although this common stereotype has persisted, the available research tends to refute the view that high IQ children have more personality disorders or emotional disturbance than normal IQ children. Much of the earlier research involved the use of projective testing and teacher ratings to measure emotional disturbance and anxiety levels.

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Dimensions of Anxiety Among High IQ Children

Scholwinski

Reynolds

1985

Gifted Child Quarterly

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“…It was normed on approximately 5,000 children between 6 and 19 years old, including Caucasian and African American males and females. Testretest reliability was calculated after one week at 0.88 (Wisniewski, Mulick, Genshaft, & Coury, 1987) and internal consistency for the whole scale as 0.82 (Reynolds, Bradley, & Steele, 1980). Convergent validity was demonstrated with a strong correlation to the Trait scale but not the State scale of the Spielberger State Trait Anxiety Scale (Reynolds, 1985).…”

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The efficacy of using music in children of divorce groups: Impact on anxiety, depression, and irrational beliefs about divorce.

DeLucia-Waack

Gellman

2007

Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice

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This study examined the efficacy of a children of divorce group using music as an intervention in comparison to a more traditional psychoeducational children of divorce group. It was predicted that children of divorce groups that utilized music would have a significantly greater impact on the children's levels of anxiety, depression, and irrational beliefs about divorce after the group ended and at a 3-month follow-up assessment. Both interventions significantly decreased cognitive and social anxiety and all irrational beliefs about divorce, except hope of reunification. Depression did not decrease for all participants but when the relationship between depression and irrational beliefs was examined, irrational beliefs were found to be mediators of depression for children of divorce. These results suggest that current interventions for children of divorce do decrease anxiety and irrational beliefs in general, but specifically addressing irrational beliefs may also decrease depressive symptoms.

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“…Cronbach's coefficient alphas were calculated separately for males and females and serve as reliability estimates for the Total Anxiety score scale. Cronbach's coefficient alpha is a measure of internal consistency and serves as an estimate of the reliability between scores on hypothetical alternate forms of a measure (Reynolds, Bradley, & Steele, 1980). Coefficient alphas also were computed separately for males' and females' scores on each subscale.…”

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Exploratory Analyses of the Latent Structure of Anxiety among Older Adults

Lowe¹,

Reynolds

2000

Educational and Psychological Measurement

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Responses to the Adult Manifest Anxiety Scale-Elderly Version (AMAS-E) of 458 older individuals, ranging in age from 60 to 100 years with 5 to 16 years of education, were submitted to an exploratory factor analysis. Using the method of principal axis factoring with promax rotation, a four-factor solution-three anxiety factors and one lie scale factor-was produced. The emergence of a three-factor structure of anxiety (Worry/Stress, Fear of Aging, and Physiological) is consistent with current multidimensional theories of anxiety and lends support to the construct validity of the AMAS-E. Internal consistency data are reported, and implications for interpretation are discussed.

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Preliminary norms and technical data for use of the Revised-Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale with kindergarten children

Cited by 20 publications

References 10 publications

Dimensions of Anxiety Among High IQ Children

Dimensions of Anxiety Among High IQ Children

The efficacy of using music in children of divorce groups: Impact on anxiety, depression, and irrational beliefs about divorce.

Exploratory Analyses of the Latent Structure of Anxiety among Older Adults

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