Back to Search
Start Over
Implications of the Online Teaching Model Derived from the COVID-19 Lockdown Situation for Anxiety and Executive Functioning in Spanish Children and Adolescents
- Source :
- RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante, Universidad de Alicante (UA), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 10456, p 10456 (2021), Volume 18, Issue 19
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI, 2021.
-
Abstract
- Given the seriousness of the existing situation regarding the mental health of children and adolescents relating to the confinement period imposed due to COVID-19, we conducted this study to describe the effects of the confinement on state anxiety and executive functioning dimensions in a period of online educational modality. A sample of 953 children and adolescents was assessed. A sociodemographic questionnaire, the State Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC), and the Behavioral Evaluation of Executive Function (BRIEF-2) scale were applied. The analysis of the results indicates that 68.8% of children and adolescents presented medium–high levels of anxiety. Regarding sex, females showed higher levels of anxiety and worse levels of executive functioning. Although the group aged 11 to 18 years showed methodologically higher state anxiety (p = 0.041) than the group aged 6 to 10 years, the difference was not clinically relevant (δ = −0.113). The state anxiety variable was also correlated positively and significantly to the three executive functioning dimensions explored. In conclusion, it seems evident that COVID-19 lockdowns could have psychological and emotional effects on children and adolescents.
- Subjects :
- 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Adolescent
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
media_common.quotation_subject
Anxiety
Adolescents
Article
lockdown
Executive Function
Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación
children
Lockdown
medicine
Humans
adolescents
Child
Children
media_common
SARS-CoV-2
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19
Mental health
Scale (social sciences)
Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológico
Communicable Disease Control
Online teaching
Medicine
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Executive functioning
executive functioning
Seriousness
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante, Universidad de Alicante (UA), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 10456, p 10456 (2021), Volume 18, Issue 19
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....495e38ec8d6afa625d820c3bd9e7013f