Anxiety manifests itself in school children from 6 to 12 years of age in Tejupilco, Mexico

Abstract

Anxiety is defined as an intense fear without any cause which currently affects the cognitive and emotional development of children of different ages, affecting all systems and organs of the body. The objective of the present research was to measure the level of anxiety in students from 6 to 12 years of age of primary school, the population consisted of 170 students of both sexes of the Miguel Hidalgo and Costilla Primary School of the City of Tejupilco, in the State of Mexico. A quantitative, descriptive study was carried out. The Manifest Anxiety scale was applied in Reynolds and Richmond (1997) Children, for the measurement of manifest anxiety, level and nature of chronic anxiety. For data analysis, descriptive statistics were used, calculating maximum, minimum, average value and with these measures the quartiles were calculated and in turn the ranges or levels of anxiety were established as low, moderate or high; as well as the frequencies and percentages. Among the results, it was found that children with severe anxiety were 22% in the restlessness/hypersensitivity subscale, 24.2% of the children had severe anxiety in the physiological anxiety subscale. When evaluating children by age, 37.5% had severe anxiety at age 11, 20% at age 6 and 18.5% at age 7 and finally 40% of children had severe anxiety level.

Keywords:

Anxiety, children, separation, school, phobia, restlessness/hypersensitivity, physiological.