Relationship between concentration and school anxiety, study with chilean secondary education adolescents
- MOJ Addiction Medicine & Therapy
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Nelly Lagos San Martín, Carlos Ossa Cornejo, Maritza Palma Luengo
Education Sciences Department, Bío-Bío University, Chile - Carlos Ossa Cornejo, Education Sciences Department, Bío-Bío University, Chile
- Maritza Palma Luengo, Education Sciences Department, Bío-Bío University, Chile
Abstract
A study was done that analyzed the influence between concentration and school anxiety; 4156 Chilean secondary education students participated. The instruments used were the School Anxiety Inventory (SAI) and the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory: High School Version (LASSI-HS); both validated with a Chilean sample showing good indicators of reliability. The relationship was analyzed with logistic regression. The result demonstrates that an inverse and causal relationship exists between concentration and school anxiety, achieving a predictive ability. The possibility of performing attention control strategies focused on cognitive and behavioral elements of anxiety is analyzed to improve its management.
Keywords
concentration, school anxiety, adolescents, socialization, inventory, behavioral, emotional, socialization, epidemiological, symptoms, complexity, cognitive, subcomponents, disorders, anxiety, hypothesis, psychophysiological, educational programs
