Children's Anger Management Scale (CAMS)

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Instrument Overview

The Children's Anger Management Scale (CAMS) is designed to understand how children manage anger. Subscore(s): Anger regulation coping, Anger inhibition, Dysregulated expression

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Organization

Student Well-Being Category

American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.

Content

Grades
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade
Keywords
Intrapersonal competencies
Languages
English
Respondent
Student

Administration Information

Length
12 items
Administration
Paper

Access and Use

Setting
Classroom

Psychometrics (additional guidance)

Psychometric References

Penza, S., Zeman, J., & Shipman, K. (1998, March). Validation of the emotion dysregulation scale for children

(EDS). Poster presented at the Conference on Human Development, Mobile, AL.

Shipman, K., Zeman, J., Penza, S., & Champion, K. (2000). Emotion management skills in sexually maltreated

and nonmaltreated girls: A developmental psychopathology perspective. Development and Psychopathology

12, 47‐62.

Zeman, J., & Shipman, K. (1996). Children's expression of negative affect: Reasons and methods.

Developmental Psychology, 32, 842‐849.

Zeman, J., Shipman, K., Penza‐Clyve, S. (2001). Development and initial validation of the children’s sadness

management scale. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 25, 187‐205.