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Multidimensional Assessment Of Children's Coping With Daily Stressful Events, Linda Elizabeth Pattee
Multidimensional Assessment Of Children's Coping With Daily Stressful Events, Linda Elizabeth Pattee
Master's Theses
The purpose of the present study was to complete a multi-dimensional assessment of children's coping. Parents of 78 thirdand fifth-grade children completed a 60-item questionnaire that described children's reactions to everyday difficulties. Children completed a class play, peer nomination assessment. Coefficient alpha and test-retest correlations were evaluated. Children also described their coping strategies to seven common situations. The children's responses were coded (kappa = .82) and combined into a priori clusters. Internal consistency for clusters was not obtained, however, the codes also represented either problem-focused or emotion-focused coping strategies. The Harter's Perceived Competence Scale, Family Adaptability . , and Cohesion …
Creativity And The Lowenfeld Mosaic Test With First, Second And Third Grade Children, Shelby Hargrave Cooke
Creativity And The Lowenfeld Mosaic Test With First, Second And Third Grade Children, Shelby Hargrave Cooke
Master's Theses
Based on the findings of the Walker study of the Lowenfield Mosaic test (1957) and the [other] studies of creativity, the following hypotheses may be made. Creative children will make original or novel designs and show complex use of color and shape. Their designs will be more asymmetrical in shape and placement and contain a greater number of places than the designs of noncreative children. They will make representational rather than abstract designs, and their human and animal figures will show motion.
A Study In The Development And Use Of The Place-A-Person Test, Ola Frances Hill
A Study In The Development And Use Of The Place-A-Person Test, Ola Frances Hill
Master's Theses
The purposes of this paper are two-fold, first, to present data in the development of the Place-A-Person test as a technique for clinical use in eliciting children's parental and sibling preferences, and secondly, to present experimental findings of the test in regard to parental preferences in a large sample.