BACKGROUND Chronic daily headache (CDH) in children has been documented in general and clinical populations. Comorbid psychological conditions, risk factors and functional outcomes of CDH in children are not well understood. OBJECTIVES To examine anxiety and depression, associated risk factors and school outcomes in a clinical population of youth with CDH compared with youth with episodic hea...

Introduction: Eating Disorder Symptoms and social anxiety can be occurring in the same time. Also social anxiety is one of the important factors predicting Eating Disorder symptoms which vary among different cultures and countries. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between Eating Disorder symptoms and social anxiety in school boys.  Materials and Methods: This was a cross-...

test situations evoke anxiety for many when the impact of tests on one’s life is considered, including the educational, emotional and other aspects. the purpose of this study is to examine the mediating role of emotion-focused and avoidant coping strategies on the relationship between trait anxiety and test anxiety. 375 high students (193 males, 182 females) aged 15-18 were selected by random c...

PURPOSE To explore the effect of expressive writing of positive emotions on test anxiety among senior-high-school students. METHODS The Test Anxiety Scale (TAS) was used to assess the anxiety level of 200 senior-high-school students. Seventy-five students with high anxiety were recruited and divided randomly into experimental and control groups. Each day for 30 days, the experimental group en...

The aims of this study were to evaluate possible relationships between trait anxiety, dental anxiety and the total number of decayed, missing and filled teeth (DMFT) index of patients attending a dental school clinic. A sample of 558 patients was surveyed with the Turkish version of the Spielberger Trait Anxiety Inventory and Dental Anxiety Scale. DMFT index was calculated by clinical and radio...

Little is known about bullying in rural areas.The participants in this study included 3,610 racially diverse youth (average age = 12.8) from 28 rural schools who completed the School Success Profile-Plus. Binary logistic regression models were created to predict bullying victimization in the past 12 months, and ordered logistic regression was used to predict school hassles in the past 12 months...

The purpose of this longitudinal study (N = 2,745) was to determine whether adolescents' recent medical use of anxiolytic or sleep medication was associated with increased incidence of using someone else's prescription for these classes of medication (nonmedical use). Data were collected from adolescents attending 5 Detroit area secondary schools between December and April in 3 consecutive acad...

The present paper aims at presenting the procedure of construction and standardization of operational measure of math anxiety scale (MAS). The final form of the test has 14 statements which is design to measure the math anxiety of secondary school and senior secondary school students. MAS as a bidimensional and shorter instrument in which 7 items are worded positively and 7 items worded negativ...

a Clinic Director, Stress Trauma Anxiety Rehabilitation and Treatment (START) Clinic for Mood and Anxiety Disorders, 32 Park Road, Toronto, ON M4W 2N4, Canada b Department of Psychiatry, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Canada c Department of Psychology, Adler Graduate Professional School, Canada d Department of Psychology, Lakehead University, Canada e Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Anx...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether somatization mediates the relationship of coping styles and internalizing problems with abdominal pain. METHODS 230 school children (M age = 11.80 years; 43.8% male; 21.3% White) completed measures of coping style, anxiety, and depression early in the school year, and subsequently reported abdominal pain symptoms weekly. RESULTS The results showed (a) the associ...