Filipino Children's Ratings of the Stressfulness of Experiences

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A total of 156 Filipino fifth and sixth graders rated the stressfulness of 20 life events on a 7-point scale. Little sex differences were detected. Even though the children showed much variation in outlook across the three school-community settings, their judgments were rather uniform, the interschool rs among the scale values ranging from .78 to .81. The overall results revealed that the loss of parent had been rated the most upsetting at 6.76, and the arrival of a new sibling, the least upsetting at 1.25. Interestingly, the Filipino scale values correlated .85 with those of American children, obtained earlier, and .81 with those by Japanese children. Even the patterns of reported incidences were amazingly similar, the rs being .83 with the United States and .87 with Japan. Many of these childhood experiences, centering around the home and school, may carry similar meanings across cultural boundaries.

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