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Download full textMatthews, Doris B.; Quinn, Jimmy L. – 1986
While evidence exists that a person's peripheral temperature responds to his state of arousal or stress, it also responds to other environmental factors. Wrist temperature has been found to vary with ambient temperature, and to increase during the school day. Before wrist temperature can be established as a valid measure of anxiety, stress, or…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Arousal Patterns, Intermediate Grades
Mazur, Elizabeth; And Others – 1992
Adding to prior literature on adults' and children's appraisals of stressors, this study examined relationships among children's negative cognitive errors regarding hypothetical negative divorce events, positive illusions about those same events, the actual divorce events, and children's post-divorce psychological adjustment. Subjects were 38…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Problems, Childhood Attitudes, Divorce
Miller, Pamela B. – 1997
This study examined the effects of exposure to violence on young children. A random sample of 236 Massachusetts 6th graders living in urban communities completed a quantitative survey on violence and its effects, including the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children-A (Briere, 1996). It was found that almost 60 percent of the children reported that…
Descriptors: Anger, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Grade 6
Doll, Beth – 1987
This paper addresses the problem of school phobia, one of the most common childhood anxiety disorders. It presents four case studies of preadolescent school phobia involving two girls and two boys in grades four through seven. Several features of effective strategies for the assessment and treatment of school phobia which have emerged from the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Counseling Techniques, Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation Criteria
Mellor-Crummey, Cynthia A.; And Others – 1989
A theoretical framework for conceptualization and assessment of preadolescent children's coping in social situations is presented. The framework classifies responses to stressful social situations according to four categories, consisting of anxiety amplification, in which children focus on negative emotions concerning an event without attempting…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Coping, Elementary School Students, Factor Structure
Adams, Melanie S.; Kariuki, Patrick – 1997
This study compared the coping strategies used by children residing with single caregivers to those used by children residing with dual caregivers. Participating were 30 children in grades 4 through 6: 15 children living in families with 1 adult present and 15 children living in families with at least 2 adults present. Measures of anxiety,…
Descriptors: Aggression, Anxiety, Attention, Behavior Problems
