Psychometric properties of the Children's Response Styles Questionnaire in a Hong Kong Chinese community sample.

Background: The Children's Response Styles Questionnaire (CRSQ) is a widely-adopted inventory that assesses response styles in youths. It is useful in examining how coping styles (particularly rumination) may relate to depressive vulnerability in youths. Despite its utility, little is known about its applicability in non-Western cultures and CRSQ has not been evaluated using current psychometric methods including item response theory (IRT).

Association between mind-body and cardiovascular exercises and memory in older adults.

Objectives: To compare the memory function of older adults who regularly practiced mind-body (MB) or cardiovascular (CV) exercises with that of those who did not engage in regular exercise. Older adults who engaged in both types of exercise were also included to examine the combined effects.

Design: Cross-sectional study between 2002 and 2003.

Music training improves verbal but not visual memory: cross-sectional and longitudinal explorations in children.

The hypothesis that music training can improve verbal memory was tested in children. The results showed that children with music training demonstrated better verbal but not visual memory than did their counterparts without such training. When these children were followed up after a year, those who had begun or continued music training demonstrated significant verbal memory improvement.

Things aren't as bad as they seem: a comment on Storms et al. (2003).

G. Storms, T. Dirikx, J.