Understanding School Anxiety in Italian Adolescence through an Artificial Neural Network: Influence of Social Skills and Coping Strategies
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Design and Procedure
2.2. Participants
2.3. Instruments
2.4. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. School Anxiety, Need for Increasing Social Skills, and Coping Strategies
3.2. Prediction of School Anxiety Using an Artificial Neural Network Architecture
4. Discussion
4.1. Applicability
4.2. Limitations
4.3. Further Lines of Research
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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M | SD | Min. | Max. | Skewness | Kurtosis | |
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School anxiety | 157.45 | 98.56 | 8 | 428 | 0.60 | −0.08 |
Need for increasing social skills | 21.51 | 7.00 | 10 | 42 | 0.58 | 0.23 |
Indifference | 2.84 | 1.52 | 0 | 6 | −0.22 | −0.22 |
Aggressive behavior | 2.87 | 1.70 | 0 | 7 | 0.11 | −0.42 |
Reserving | 3.91 | 2.12 | 0 | 8 | −0.05 | −0.60 |
Cognitive avoidance | 2.85 | 1.57 | 0 | 6 | 0.09 | −0.33 |
Behavioral avoidance | 4.03 | 2.15 | 0 | 8 | −0.00 | −0.40 |
Active solution | 4.75 | 1.97 | 0 | 8 | −0.10 | −0.65 |
Problem communication | 4.28 | 1.97 | 0 | 8 | 0.04 | −0.21 |
Search for information | 4.28 | 1.94 | 0 | 8 | −0.03 | −0.21 |
Positive attitude | 5.11 | 2.09 | 0 | 8 | −0.27 | −0.72 |
Variables Correlated with “School Anxiety” | Pearson Correlation | Sig. (2-Tailed) | 95% C. I. (1) | |
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Lower | Upper | |||
Social skills | 0.454 | <0.001 | 0.202 | 0.644 |
Indifference | 0.139 | 0.307 | −0.130 | 0.387 |
Aggressive Behavior | 0.191 | 0.154 | −0.075 | 0.429 |
Reserving | 0.340 | 0.011 | 0.079 | 0.553 |
Cognitive avoidance | 0.177 | 0.193 | −0.092 | 0.419 |
Behavioral avoidance | 0.196 | 0.149 | −0.073 | 0.435 |
Active solution | 0.307 | 0.020 | 0.048 | 0.524 |
Problem communication | 0.284 | 0.034 | 0.021 | 0.507 |
Search for information | 0.109 | 0.419 | −0.157 | 0.359 |
Positive attitude | −0.022 | 0.872 | −0.283 | 0.242 |
Predictor | Predicted | ||||
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Hidden Layer 1 | Output Layer | ||||
H (1:1) | H (1:2) | [Anxiety = 0] | [Anxiety = 1] | ||
Input layer | (Bias) | −0.285 | −0.067 | ||
Need for increasing social skills | 0.483 | −0.400 | |||
Indifference | −0.069 | 0.256 | |||
Aggressive behavior | 0.250 | −0.049 | |||
Reserving | −0.123 | −0.438 | |||
Cognitive avoidance | 0.530 | −0.198 | |||
Behavioral avoidance | 0.537 | 0.421 | |||
Active solution | −0.240 | −0.176 | |||
Problem communication | 0.393 | 0.255 | |||
Search for information | 0.391 | −0.054 | |||
Positive attitude | 0.122 | 0.168 | |||
Hidden layer 1 | (Bias) | 0.058 | −0.122 | ||
H (1:1) | −0.681 | −0.039 | |||
H (1:2) | 0.066 | −0.236 |
Stage | Observed | Predicted | ||
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0 | Low Anxiety | Percent Correct | ||
Training | Low anxiety | 14 | 1 | 93.3% |
High anxiety | 6 | 10 | 62.5% | |
Overall Percent | 64.5% | 35.5% | 77.4% | |
Testing | Low anxiety | 7 | 1 | 87.5% |
High anxiety | 1 | 1 | 50.0% | |
Overall Percent | 80.0% | 20.0% | 80.0% | |
Holdout | Low anxiety | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
High anxiety | 1 | 2 | 66.7% | |
Overall Percent | 66.7% | 33.3% | 83.3% |
Importance | Standardized Importance | |
---|---|---|
Need for increasing social skills | 0.195 | 98.1% |
Indifference | 0.065 | 32.7% |
Aggressive behavior | 0.098 | 49.4% |
Reserving (or keeping the problem to oneself) | 0.047 | 23.7% |
Cognitive avoidance | 0.199 | 100.0% |
Behavioral avoidance | 0.105 | 52.6% |
Active solution | 0.049 | 24.6% |
Communicating the problem to others | 0.094 | 47.4% |
Search for information and guidance | 0.129 | 64.7% |
Positive attitude | 0.019 | 9.5% |
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Morales-Rodríguez, F.M.; Martínez-Ramón, J.P.; Narváez Peláez, M.A.; Corvasce, C. Understanding School Anxiety in Italian Adolescence through an Artificial Neural Network: Influence of Social Skills and Coping Strategies. Children 2023, 10, 1688. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10101688
Morales-Rodríguez FM, Martínez-Ramón JP, Narváez Peláez MA, Corvasce C. Understanding School Anxiety in Italian Adolescence through an Artificial Neural Network: Influence of Social Skills and Coping Strategies. Children. 2023; 10(10):1688. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10101688
Chicago/Turabian StyleMorales-Rodríguez, Francisco Manuel, Juan Pedro Martínez-Ramón, Manuel Alejandro Narváez Peláez, and Catalda Corvasce. 2023. "Understanding School Anxiety in Italian Adolescence through an Artificial Neural Network: Influence of Social Skills and Coping Strategies" Children 10, no. 10: 1688. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10101688