| dc.contributor.author | Watt, Margo Christene. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:35:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2000 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINQ57344 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55692 | |
| dc.description | The present study was designed to investigate age and gender differences in perception of control and the relations among perception of control and anxious and dysphoric mood. The study combined a mixed prospective and cross-sectional design that allowed assessment of children's affective responses to immediate and longer-term, laboratory- and naturally-occurring, stressors. A total of 335 students (61 F/50 M 8-year-olds; 69 F/51 M 11-year-olds; 60 F/44 M 14-year-olds) participated in the study. In small groups of 3 to 5, the volunteer participants completed a questionnaire package consisting of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS), Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) and Children's Hassles Scale (CHS). The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children (PANASC), the experimental Judgement of Control task and Induced Failure Task, comprised of unsolvable block designs, were completed independently and in private. | en_US |
| dc.description | The present study provides support for the Piagetian view that illusory contingency declines with age. Sensitivity to response probability and random outcomes were found to increase with age. Results replicate Alloy and Clements' (1992) finding that a higher perception of control confers protection from the negative effect of stress but appears to play a differential role for males and females. Higher control ratings were associated with greater perceived stress for males and lower perceived stress for females. Anxious and dysphoric moods were found to involve similar and realistic perceptions of control. No support was found for either a moderational or mediational role for control perception in the development of either anxiety or dysphoria. An increasing convergence of symptoms of anxiety and dysphoria with age was found for females but not males. Finally, the present study offers support for Nolen-Hoeksema and Girgus' (1994) model to explain gender differences in the development of anxious and dysphoric symptoms. Females were found to carry more predisposing vulnerability factors (i.e., perceived intensity of daily hassles) for dysphoria, but not for anxiety. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 2000. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Psychology, Clinical. | en_US |
| dc.title | Age and gender differences in perception of control: Implications for development of anxious and dysphoric mood. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
