Publication: School anxiety profiles in Spanish adolescents and their differences in psychopathological symptoms
Authors
Fernández-Sogorb, Aitana ; Sanmartín, Ricardo ; Vicent, María ; Gonzálvez, Carolina ; Ruiz Esteban, Cecilia ; García-Fernández, José Manuel
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Facultad de Educación
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Plos one
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0262280
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Abstract
School anxiety and psychopathological symptoms tend to co-occur across development
and persist in adulthood. The present study aimed to determine school anxiety profiles
based on Lang’s model of the triple response system (cognitive anxiety, sychophysiological anxiety, and behavioral anxiety) and to identify possible differences between these profiles in psychopathological symptoms (depression, hostility, interpersonal sensitivity, somatization, anxiety, psychoticism, obsessive-compulsive, phobic anxiety, and paranoid ideation). The School Anxiety Inventory (SAI) and the Symptom Assessment-45 Questionnaire (SA-45) were administered to 1525 Spanish students (49% girls) between 15 and 18 years old (M = 16.36, SD = 1.04). Latent Profile Analysis identified four school anxiety profiles: Low School Anxiety, Average School Anxiety, High School Anxiety, and Excessive School Anxiety. A multivariate analysis of variance revealed statistically significant differences among the school anxiety profiles in all the psychopathological symptoms examined. Specifically, adolescents with Excessive School Anxiety showed significantly higher levels of the nine psychopathological symptoms than their peers with Average School Anxiety and Low School Anxiety. In addition, the Excessive School Anxiety profile scored significantly higher in phobic anxiety than the High School Anxiety group. These findings allow to conclude that it is necessary enhance well-being and reduce psychopathology of those adolescents who manifest high and very high reactivity in cognitive, sychophysiological, and behavioral anxiety.
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Fernandez-Sogorb A, Sanmartın R, Vicent, M, Gonzalvez C, Ruiz-Esteban C, Garcıa-Fernandez JM (2022) School anxiety profiles in Spanish adolescents and their differences in psychopathological symptoms. PLoS ONE 17(1): e0262280
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