To What Extent Has COVID-19 Exacerbated High School Students’ Anxiety?

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10.2991/assehr.k.220105.193How to use a DOI?

Keywords

COVID-19; High School Students; Anxiety

Abstract

As the COVID-19 epidemic emerged, not only has people’s physical health been seriously threatened, but their mental health conditions also have been negatively affected. Under such circumstances, high school students’ emotion problems, especially anxiety, should be taken seriously. As students suffered immensely from external and internal stress, like large amounts of homework, exams and worries towards the future, they are also psychologically immature as they are still at a relatively young age. To study the conditions of anxiety of senior high students during periods of COVID-19 epidemic, this research released the COVID19 epidemic KAP questionnaire and Self-rating Anxiety Scale(SAS)online and finally received 136 students’ data. The results showed that 41.9% of high school students suffer from anxiety problems. Among these students 3.67% (5/136)are suffering from severe anxiety, and moderate anxiety exists in 2.9% of students (4/136), while mild anxiety is found in 35.29%(48/136)of students. In addition, the students’ attitude toward the epidemic and their actions taken to prevent the virus have a significant positive correlation (r = 0.258, p<0.01). Senior high students’ anxiety conditions 9significantly negatively correlated with their attitudes towards COVID19 (r=-0.273, p<0.01),while high school students’ anxiety has no obvious correlation with their actions toward epidemic. The results indicated that senior students though do well in knowledge, attitudes and behaviour during periods of COVID19,they still feel anxiety in everyday life, and holding a positive attitudes can help to reduce general anxiety.

The results indicated that high-school students’ anxiety levels were negatively affected by the COVID-19 epidemic though most of the students have comprehensive knowledge, proper protection methods and positive attitudes towards the epidemic

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Diyun Zheng
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/17
TI  - To What Extent Has COVID-19 Exacerbated High School Students’ Anxiety?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1041
EP  - 1048
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.193
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.193
ID  - Zheng2022
ER  -