Understanding School Anxiety in Italian Adolescence through an Artificial Neural Network: Influence of Social Skills and Coping Strategies
School anxiety depends on multiple factors that occur directly or indirectly in the teaching–learning process, such as going to the blackboard in class or reporting low grades at home. Other factors that influence school climate are social skills and coping strategies. That said, the aim of this res...
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| author | Francisco Manuel Morales-Rodríguez Juan Pedro Martínez-Ramón Manuel Alejandro Narváez Peláez Catalda Corvasce |
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| description | School anxiety depends on multiple factors that occur directly or indirectly in the teaching–learning process, such as going to the blackboard in class or reporting low grades at home. Other factors that influence school climate are social skills and coping strategies. That said, the aim of this research was to analyze the sources of school anxiety, coping strategies, and social skills in Italian secondary school students through an artificial neural network. For this purpose, a quantitative and ex post facto design was used in which the Inventory of School Anxiety (IAES), the Coping Scale for Children (EAN), and the Questionnaire for the Evaluation of Social Skills student version (EHS-A) were administered. The results showed that cognitive avoidance and behavioral avoidance coping strategies, together with the lack of social skills in students, are the variables that contributed the most to school anxiety scores in the artificial neural network. The conclusions revolve around the need to develop primary prevention programs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-47df0e437f7b4269b36e8ce2446b26822023-11-19T16:05:40ZengMDPI AGChildren2227-90672023-10-011010168810.3390/children10101688Understanding School Anxiety in Italian Adolescence through an Artificial Neural Network: Influence of Social Skills and Coping StrategiesFrancisco Manuel Morales-Rodríguez0Juan Pedro Martínez-Ramón1Manuel Alejandro Narváez Peláez2Catalda Corvasce3Department of Educational and Developmental Psychology, Campus of La Cartuja, Faculty of Psychology, University of Granada, 18011 Granada, SpainDepartment of Evolutionary and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy, Campus Regional Excellence Mare Nostrum, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, SpainDepartment of Human Physiology and Physical and Sports Activity, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaga, 29071 Málaga, SpainLiceo Statale “Carlo Cafiero”, 76121 Barletta, ItalySchool anxiety depends on multiple factors that occur directly or indirectly in the teaching–learning process, such as going to the blackboard in class or reporting low grades at home. Other factors that influence school climate are social skills and coping strategies. That said, the aim of this research was to analyze the sources of school anxiety, coping strategies, and social skills in Italian secondary school students through an artificial neural network. For this purpose, a quantitative and ex post facto design was used in which the Inventory of School Anxiety (IAES), the Coping Scale for Children (EAN), and the Questionnaire for the Evaluation of Social Skills student version (EHS-A) were administered. The results showed that cognitive avoidance and behavioral avoidance coping strategies, together with the lack of social skills in students, are the variables that contributed the most to school anxiety scores in the artificial neural network. The conclusions revolve around the need to develop primary prevention programs.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/10/10/1688coexistencecopingschool anxietysocial skillsstress |
| spellingShingle | Francisco Manuel Morales-Rodríguez Juan Pedro Martínez-Ramón Manuel Alejandro Narváez Peláez Catalda Corvasce Understanding School Anxiety in Italian Adolescence through an Artificial Neural Network: Influence of Social Skills and Coping Strategies Children coexistence coping school anxiety social skills stress |
| title | Understanding School Anxiety in Italian Adolescence through an Artificial Neural Network: Influence of Social Skills and Coping Strategies |
| title_full | Understanding School Anxiety in Italian Adolescence through an Artificial Neural Network: Influence of Social Skills and Coping Strategies |
| title_fullStr | Understanding School Anxiety in Italian Adolescence through an Artificial Neural Network: Influence of Social Skills and Coping Strategies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding School Anxiety in Italian Adolescence through an Artificial Neural Network: Influence of Social Skills and Coping Strategies |
| title_short | Understanding School Anxiety in Italian Adolescence through an Artificial Neural Network: Influence of Social Skills and Coping Strategies |
| title_sort | understanding school anxiety in italian adolescence through an artificial neural network influence of social skills and coping strategies |
| topic | coexistence coping school anxiety social skills stress |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/10/10/1688 |
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