TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Initial Validation of the Children's Worry Management Scale
JO  - Journal of child and family studies
A1  - Zeman, Janice
A1  - Cassano, Michael
A1  - Suveg, Cynthia
A1  - Shipman, Kimberly L.
SP  - 381
EP  - 392
VL  - 19
IS  - 4
N2  - 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.<p /> 
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SN  - 1062-1024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-009-9308-4
ID  - ref1
ER  -