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Manifest Anxiety in Economically Deprived Children in Rural Appalachia
Author(s) -
Southworth Lois E.,
Albert Zoe E.,
Gravatt Arthur E.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
family and consumer sciences research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 1077-727X
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x7300200105
Subject(s) - appalachia , socioeconomic status , appalachian region , anxiety , psychology , demography , rural area , social class , medicine , geography , psychiatry , population , sociology , political science , paleontology , pathology , physical geography , biology , law
The purposes of this study were to obtain data on the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (CMAS) administered to children in an Appalachian area, to compare these data with appropriate studies reported in the literature for other groups of children in the United States, and to discuss results in terms of child‐rearing practices. The CMAS was administered to 176 fifth and sixth grade children from families of low socioeconomic level in a rural Appalachian area of East Tennessee. Mean scores were higher than for most groups of middle‐class Midwest children reported in the literature, especially for fifth grade girls, but were commensurate with reported scores of children from a Southeastern area, black children, and a psychiatric outpatient group in Minnesota. Results of an item analysis and chi‐square analysis of sex differences were compared with a St. Louis study. Findings are discussed in terms of child‐rearing practices in Appalachia since reports of cross‐cultural CMAS studies have stressed this aspect when reporting comparative data.