WHAT I THINK AND FEEL - A REVISED MEASURE OF CHILDRENS MANIFEST ANXIETY (REPRINTED FROM JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL CHILD-PSYCHOLOGY, VOL 6, PG 271-280, 1978)

The 1956 adaptation for children of Taylor's Manifest Anxiety Scale, t he Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, was revised to meet current psyc hometric standards. A 73-item revision draft was administered to 329 s chool children from grades 1 to 12. Based on item-analysis criteria fo r r(bis) greater than or equal to .4 and .30 less than or equal to p l ess than or equal to .70, 28 anxiety items were retained along with 9 of the original 11 Lie scale items. A cross-validation sample of 167 c hildren from grades 2, 5, 9, 10, and 11 produced a KR(20) reliability estimate of .85. Anxiety scores did not differ across grade or race. F emales scored significantly higher than males. For the Lie scale, sign ificant differences appeared by grade and race. No sex differences wer e obtained on the Lie scale. The resulting scale appears useful for ch ildren in grades 1 to 12 and may aid in future studies of anxiety as w ell as assisting the clinician in the understanding of individual chil dren.