Manifest Anxiety in Japanice, French, and United States Children

A Japanese translation of the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale was given to 155 9-year-old Japanese children from 2 public schools at Kyoto and Kofu. No school or sex differences were found within the total Japanese sample. Cross-cultural comparisons were made between the Japanese Ss and groups of 169 U.S. and 132 French 9-year-old school children. Japanese scored significantly lower than children from the United States and France on both the Anxiety and Lie scales, this ordering in sharp contrast to cross-cultural anxiety data involving adults from the same three countries.