RESEARCH IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH • VOLUME 36 • FEBRUARY 2002 This study addresses issues of English language anxiety in two settings: English as a second language and mainstream classrooms. Participants were 178 middle-school Mexican immigrant students attending school in the U.S. Participants were given the English Language Anxiety Scale, which was analyzed with three statistical tests: pai...

This study investigated the relationship between smoking and depression and anxiety using data from a nationwide survey representing Korean adolescents. Subjects were 6,489 adolescents in middle and high school (age 13-18) who had participated in the 2011 Korean Study of Promotion Policies on Children and Adolescents-Mental Health (KSPCAM). Daily smoking number of times for current smokers was ...

OBJECTIVE Previous studies have suggested that anxiety disorders are more prevalent among women than men. The purpose of this study was to compare the metacognitive perspective of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) in females with males. METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted on the high school girls and boys who have been affected by GAD. The sample consisted of 100 high school studen...

Background At present, the mental health of rural left-behind children is a major social problem in China. Internet addiction, social anxiety, and loneliness are common psychological and behavioral problems among rural left-behind children, but the relationships among these issues have not been clearly identified. Methods A total of 432 junior year 1 to senior year 3 students were randomly se...

Social anxiety disorder in adolescents is increasingly recognized as a common condition that may precede onset of other mental health problems. However, few measures are currently available to screen for adolescent social anxiety, and little is known about their psychometric characteristics in school-based samples. To this end, the present study was undertaken as a psychometric cross validation...

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a school-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) on symptoms of anxiety, social worry and social responsiveness, and indices of attentional control and attentional biases to threat in adolescents diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Thirty-five young people (11-14 years; IQ > 70) with ASD and elevated teacher or parent reported anxiety were random...

Bu araştırmanın amacı, sınıf öğretmenlerinin matematik kaygılarını incelemektir. Çalışmada karma araştırma yöntemlerinden sıralı açıklayıcı desen kullanılmıştır. Sınıf öğretmenlerinin, incelemek için öncelikle “Öğretmenlere Yönelik Matematik Kaygı Ölçeği (Ö-MKÖ)” amaçlı örnekleme stratejilerinden uygun yöntemi ile belirlenmiş Bingöl ilinin merkez ilçelerindeki devlet okullarında görev yapan 100...

Childhood sleep problems have been associated with a range of adverse cognitive and academic outcomes, as well as increased impulsivity and emotional disorders such as anxiety and depression. The aim of the study was to examine subjective reports of sleeprelated problems in children with anxiety disorders during school and weekend nights. Thirty-seven children with clinically-diagnosed anxiety ...