self esteem. Furthermore, Riffee believes that children hospitalized for surgery will develop greater changes in their internal self esteem than those simply hospitalized for other matters.
Riffee randomly selected two groups of hospitalized subjects and one group of non hospitalized children. She identified potential subjects for her study through routine daily admission slips from a 220 bed teaching hospital in a large mid western city. Those children from the control, or non hospitalized group, were taken from regular class lists from an elementary school in a neighboring co
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