Anxiety in Children 8-10 Years

Authors : Saniye TEZE

Pages : 533-535

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Publication Date : 2019-12-10

Article Type : Conference Paper

Abstract :This study was conducted to determine anxiety scores of 8-10 year old children. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive study was conducted on the parents of 288 children aged 8-10 years from Karaman. The population of the study consisted of the parents of healthy children aged 8-10 years and the study group consisted of volunteers to participate in the study. Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(SCAS); –Parent Version was used as data collection tool. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t test in SPSS package program. FINDINGS In this study, the total score average of the scale was found to be 25,1 ±15,26. The mean total score of the girls was found to be 22.69 ± 13.44; The mean score of the scale was found to be 27.59 ± 16.66 in men. The mean score of anxiety in boys was higher than the anxiety score of girls and it was found that there was a statistically significant difference insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p <0.01);. RESULTS In this study, it was concluded that the anxiety level of males was higher than the girls in the 8-10 age group
Keywords : 8 10 years old child, Anxiety