İlkokul 3. Sınıf Öğrencilerinin Kaygı ve Depresyon Düzeylerinin İncelenmesi
A Study on Anxiety and Depression Levels of Primary School Third Grade Students

Summary/Abstract: The school adaptation problems of some primary school first grade students can affect their academic successes, friend relationships, classroom behaviors in the higher grades the reason is because their adaption problems can turn to the symptoms of anxiety and depression. The aim of this study is to determine the level of anxiety and depression of primary school third graders both in terms of their own perceptions and their parents’ perceptions. Anxiety and Depression Scale For Children consisting of 6 subscales as separate anxiety, general anxiety, panic disorder, phobia, OCB, depression was administered to 207 third grade students and their parents of primary school in Istanbul. In this study, qualitative method and survey model were used and significant differences were found between girls and boys against boys, in terms of separate anxiety (p=.044) and panic disorder (p=.018). There was no significant difference between girls and boys in terms of their evaluations of their parents. When all subscales examined, rates ranging from 1.1% to 10.9% for boys and ranging from 3.4% to 10.1% for girls were reported to have borderline level disorders, while high level disorder rates changed from 4.3% to 12% for boys, from 1.1% to 6.7% for girls. As a result, the anxiety levels of boys and girls were close to each other and the ratios of borderline level disorders seemed to overlap the results of previous studies. High anxiety proportions of both groups highlighted the need for students to receieve psychological support from the school guidance service in form of individual and/or group works.

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