Differences in school anxiety according to sex and academic year in primary education

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Published: Nov 4, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2017.n1.v3.974
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school anxiety childhood primary education sex academic year differences

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Mª Isabel Gómez-Núñez
Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
M. P. Aparicio-Flores
Universidad de Alicante
María Vicent
Universidad de Alicante
David Aparisi-Sierra
Universidad de Alicante
Aitana Fernández-Sogorb
Universidad de Alicante
Cándido J. Inglés
Universidad de Alicante

Abstract

School anxiety is defined as combination of cognitive, psychophysiological and behavioral responses that a person shows in situations assessed as threatening, dangerous or ambiguous, although they were not objectively (Garcia-Fernández, Inglés, Martínez-Monteagudo, and Redondo, 2008). The important short and long-term negative consequences, which can be caused by the continued manifestation of this emotion, increase the importance of its study. Thus, the main purpose of this research was to determine the differences in school anxiety according to sex and the academic year in a sample of Primary Education students. For this purpose, a sample of 758 students in 3º, 4º, 5º and 6º grades of Primary Education with ages ranging from 8 to 11 (M = 9.68, SD = 1.23) was taken on. Participants completed the new School Anxiety Inventory for Primary Education (Gómez-Núñez, García-Fernández, and Inglés, 2015). The results of the analysis of variance intersubjectives (ANOVA) indicated that girls showed significantly higher levels of school anxiety compared to boys. These levels of school anxiety increased from third to sixth grade, with the highest levels in the last year of the stage. The post-hoc analyzes (Scheffee test) showed statistically significant differences between third and fifth year, as well as between third and sixth year, with the highest means in last years. These findings show the importance of assessing school anxiety in late childhood, taking into account the differences that exist according to sex and the academic year.

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Gómez-Núñez, M. I., Aparicio-Flores, M. P., Vicent, M., Aparisi-Sierra, D., Fernández-Sogorb, A., & Inglés, C. J. (2017). Differences in school anxiety according to sex and academic year in primary education. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 3(1), 51–60. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2017.n1.v3.974
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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2017): MONOGRAPH NO. 2. PSYCHOLOGY TODAY: CHALLENGES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE FUTURE. CHILD PSYCHOLOGY.
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