Development of Anxiety and Depression Inventory for Secondary School Students in Iran (A & D Inventory)

Author(s):  
Mahnaz Fallahi Khesht-Masjedi ◽  
Zoharah Omar
2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 153-164
Author(s):  
Gillian C. Williams ◽  
Karen A. Patte ◽  
Mark A. Ferro ◽  
Scott T. Leatherdale

Introduction Few studies have assessed patterns of substance use among Canadian adolescents. This cross-sectional study examined substance use classes among Canadian secondary school students and associations with anxiety and depression. Methods This study used data from Year 6 (2017/18) of the COMPASS study. Students (n = 51 767) reported their substance use (alcohol, cannabis, cigarette and e-cigarette use) and anxiety and depression symptoms. We employed latent class analysis to identify substance use classes and multinomial logistic regression to examine how anxiety and depression were associated with class membership. Results Overall, 40% of students indicated having anxiety and/or depression (50% in females; 29% in males) and 60% of students reported substance use (60% in females; 61% in males). We identified three substance use classes: poly-use, dual use, and non-use. Females with both anxiety and depression had the highest odds of being in the poly-use class compared to the non-use class (odds ratio [OR] = 4.09; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 3.59–4.65) followed by females with depression only (OR = 2.65; 95% CI: 2.31–3.04) and males with both anxiety and depression (OR = 2.48; 95% CI: 2.19–2.80). Symptomatology was also associated with belonging to the dual use class except among males with anxiety only (OR = 1.13; 95% CI: 0.94–1.37). Conclusion Canadian secondary school students are engaging in dual and poly-substance use, and anxiety and depression were associated with such use. Females had a higher prevalence of anxiety and depression and should be a priority population for mental health programming.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Faris Essa Ahmed ◽  
Dr. Mohammed Alrowaily

Objectives: to assess the Prevalence of anxiety and depression among secondary school students and to compare male and female group Methods: This is an observational cross section study using The sampling technique followed stratified convenient sampling and data was collected using self-administered questionnaires (Arabic version of the symptom revised SCL 90- R). Data was collected from 331 secondary school students between 15 and 18 years old from both genders after raking an informed consent Results: Results show 25.7% of the students had anxiety, On comparing boys and girls,23 boys (10.1%) had anxiety, while 62 (59.6%) of the girls had anxiety. In depression 28.4% is the Prevalence of depression in both genders, on comparing boys and girls, 34 male students (14.9%), while 60 female students (57.7%) had depressive symptoms with strong significance when comparing boys to girls Conclusion: This study analyzed the importance of mental health assessment and follow-up in secondary school students, especially irls. However, further assessment for other co – factors such as socioeconomic differences should be considered.


2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinz Neber ◽  
Kurt A. Heller

Summary The German Pupils Academy (Deutsche Schüler-Akademie) is a summer-school program for highly gifted secondary-school students. Three types of program evaluation were conducted. Input evaluation confirmed the participants as intellectually highly gifted students who are intrinsically motivated and interested to attend the courses offered at the summer school. Process evaluation focused on the courses attended by the participants as the most important component of the program. Accordingly, the instructional approaches meet the needs of highly gifted students for self-regulated and discovery oriented learning. The product or impact evaluation was based on a multivariate social-cognitive framework. The findings indicate that the program contributes to promoting motivational and cognitive prerequisites for transforming giftedness into excellent performances. To some extent, the positive effects on students' self-efficacy and self-regulatory strategies are due to qualities of the learning environments established by the courses.


2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jake Harwood ◽  
Laszlo Vincze

Based on the model of Reid, Giles and Abrams (2004 , Zeitschrift für Medienpsychologie, 16, 17–25), this paper describes and analyzes the relation between television use and ethnolinguistic-coping strategies among German speakers in South Tyrol, Italy. The data were collected among secondary school students (N = 415) in 2011. The results indicated that the television use of the students was dominated by the German language. A mediation analysis revealed that TV viewing contributed to the perception of ethnolinguistic vitality, the permeability of intergroup boundaries, and status stability, which in turn affected ethnolinguistic-coping strategies of mobility (moving toward the outgroup), creativity (maintaining identity without confrontation), and competition (fighting for ingroup rights and respect). Findings and theoretical implications are discussed.


2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Latsch ◽  
Bettina Hannover

We investigated effects of the media’s portrayal of boys as “scholastic failures” on secondary school students. The negative portrayal induced stereotype threat (boys underperformed in reading), stereotype reactance (boys displayed stronger learning goals towards mathematics but not reading), and stereotype lift (girls performed better in reading but not in mathematics). Apparently, boys were motivated to disconfirm their group’s negative depiction, however, while they could successfully apply compensatory strategies when describing their learning goals, this motivation did not enable them to perform better. Overall the media portrayal thus contributes to the maintenance of gender stereotypes, by impairing boys’ and strengthening girls’ performance in female connoted domains and by prompting boys to align their learning goals to the gender connotation of the domain.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beijia Tan ◽  
Jenee Love ◽  
Leigh Harrell-Williams ◽  
Christian E. Mueller ◽  
Martin H. Jones

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