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Volume 42, Issue 4
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Maki OTA, Taiko NAGASAWAArticle type: Article
2004 Volume 42 Issue 4 Pages 259-270
Published: November 30, 2004
Released on J-STAGE: July 28, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe purpose of the present study was to examine developmental features of the self-esteem of elementary school children who stutter, and to investigate the relation between self-esteem and perceived communication competence. Third-through sixth-grade children who stutter (CWS; 132 boys and 39 girls enrolled in special speech classes in public elementary schools) and children who do not stutter (CNS; 696 boys, 722 girls, and 3 participants who did not indicate gender) completed a self-esteem scale (42 items) and a perceived communication competence scale (19 items). The results were as follows: (1) No significant differences were found between the self-esteem scores of the two groups of children. The self-esteem scores of the children who stutter decreased every grade from third to sixth; the same tendency was shown by the scores of the children who do not stutter. (2) Factor analysis of the responses on the self-esteem scale by the children who stutter revealed 4 factors, whereas the responses of the children who do not stutter revealed 3 factors. The 3 factors in each group were the same: confidence, motivation, and self acceptance. The fourth factor in children who stutter was acceptance by their family. (3) In both groups of children, in all grades, a positive correlation was found between the self-esteem scores and the perceived communication competence scores. However, the correlation for the sixth grade children who do not stutter was statistically smaller than the correlation in other grades for that group and than the correlation in all grades of the children who stutter.View full abstractDownload PDF (1305K) -
Hiroyuki UNO, Satomi TAKAMI, Hiromi KOTANI, Yutaka WATANABEArticle type: Article
2004 Volume 42 Issue 4 Pages 271-281
Published: November 30, 2004
Released on J-STAGE: July 28, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn the present study, "Pay Attention!", a child-oriented cognitive treatment program, was administered to a boy with epilepsy (9 years 4 months old at the start of the study) who had continuous spikes and waves during slow sleep (CSWS), and who had difficulties with visuo-spatial recognition and attention. The effects of the training on attention and cognitive level (visual memory), and in daily life (navigation task) were evaluated. During training, error rate gradually decreased on 2 of the tasks as training continued; this effect was maintained in re-training sessions. The boy did not have difficulty with the other tasks. After the training, the boy's performance on a selective attention task significantly improved, compared to pre-training. The boy especially improved on the visuo-spatial and declarative memory tests. On the navigation tasks, his recognition of visual images improved, but his performance on the tasks involving selection of orientation and serial topographical memory did not. The results suggest that the attention training ameliorated cognitive functions in a process-specific manner.View full abstractDownload PDF (1160K) -
Akiko TANIGUCHIArticle type: Article
2004 Volume 42 Issue 4 Pages 283-291
Published: November 30, 2004
Released on J-STAGE: July 28, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSAlthough it has been considered useful for teachers to understand the psychological status of hospitalized children and youth in order to be able to provide appropriate educational support, very few studies have been done in this field, mainly because of concerns about protection of privacy. The purpose of the present study was to clarify the structure of anxiety and the patterns of anxiety among hospitalized children and youth. Participants, 157 children and youth, 9 to 18 years of age, who had been hospitalized for long periods of time, completed a newly developed questionnaire. Factor analysis of the results revealed 5 sub-types of anxiety: anxiety about the future, loneliness, fear of medical treatments, maladjustment to long-term hospital stay, and worry about being left behind by friends. The results indicated that the girls felt deeper loneliness than the boys. Also, the older youths had higher anxieties about the future and greater maladjustment to living in the hospital. A cluster analysis, based on the sub-type scores, done in order to determine possible differences in the anxiety patterns, identified 3 patterns of anxiety. In addition, examination of free descriptions of opinion showed that some of the participants' serious anxieties could not be clearly expressed.View full abstractDownload PDF (906K) -
[in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japanese]Article type: Article
2004 Volume 42 Issue 4 Pages 293-301
Published: November 30, 2004
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[in Japanese], [in Japanese]Article type: Article
2004 Volume 42 Issue 4 Pages 303-315
Published: November 30, 2004
Released on J-STAGE: July 28, 2017
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