Perfiles de ansiedad escolar: Diferencias en Clima Social y Violencia entre Iguales

Abstract

Introduction: School anxiety is defined as a set of symptoms grouped into cognitive, psychophysiological and motor responses emitted by a subject in school situations that are perceived as threatening and / or dangerous. Between school variables relevant, school anxiety may be influenced by the perception of social climate and the daily violence observed by the students in the school. The aim of this study was to identify whether there are different combinations of school anxiety-provoking situations leading to different anxious profiles. Furthermore, it claims to verify whether there are differences between these profiles on the variables of perception of social climate and peer violence. Method: The sample consists of 365 high school students. School anxiety was measured with the School Anxiety Inventory; the social climate was measured with the School Social Climate Questionnaire and peer violence with the Daily School Violence Questionnaire. Results: Cluster analyses have identified three profiles of school anxiety. The results indicated statistically significant differences between the three profiles in relation to the climate variables related to teachers between groups with low and high school anxiety and personal experience of suffering violence between groups with low and middle school anxiety among the group with low and high school anxiety. The magnitude of the differences found was low to moderate. Discussion and Conclusion: The findings of this study are relevant because they provide a more comprehensive analysis of school anxiety and differences in other relevant variables in education, such as the school social climate and peer violence. © Education & Psychology I+D+i and Editorial EOS (Spain).