Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.32728/mo.18.1.2023.02
THE INFLUENCE OF THE FAMILY STATUS ON THE MANIFESTATION OF ANXIETY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Miroslava Kojić
orcid.org/0000-0002-7779-6540
; European Academy of Sciences in Belgrade, Serbia
Zagorka Markov
; College of Vocational Studies for the Education of Preschool Teachers in Kikinda, Serbia
Smiljana Kojić Grandić
; Univesity of Fine Arts Novi Sad Vojvodina, Serbia
Abstract
The prime aim of the research was to establish whether children and adolescents
from foster families and children and adolescents from single-parent families suffer
more from anxiety than the respondents from two-parent families. The sample
included 124 respondents, 42 respondents from foster families, 38 children and
adolescents from single-parent families and 44 from two-parent families. The results
indicate that there are differences in the manifestation of anxiety when it comes to
respondents from single-parent families and foster families compared to children and
adolescents from two-parent families. There are statistically significant differences in
the levels of expression of anxiety among children who live in foster families compared
to children who live with their two-parents and one parent families. Children from
two-parent families show less anxiety compared to children from single-parent and
foster families. The conclusion would be that society should provide support to the
problem of anxiety in children and adolescents, as well as the most common mental
problems in the health, social and educational contexts. The support would refer both
to the prevention of anxiety and to an adequate multidimensional approach in which
specialists from different fields, trained educators and parents or guardians of children
would be involved
Keywords
anxiety, children from foster families, single-parent families, two-parent families.
Hrčak ID:
316578
URI
Publication date:
2.5.2024.
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