Anxiety among children in Israel

A sample of 676 children from Israel participated in the present study. They resided in either a city (n = 105) or kibbutz (n = 571) in northern or central Israel. Participants completed an Hebrew version of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale. The current study hypothesized that anxiety is multidimensional in nature. It was also hypothesized that anxiety, given the unique environment of Israel, would be associated with different sources of potential threat. The anxiety items comprising the revised scale were analyzed via a principal factor analysis with varimax rotation. A two-factor solution was retained as the most statistically sound solution; one factor was labeled Anticipatory Anxiety and the other Social Anxiety. The results support the hypotheses.