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Anxiety as a risk factor for school absenteeism: what differentiates anxious school attenders from non-attenders?

BACKGROUND: Anxiety is a major risk factor for problematic school absenteeism. However, most anxious students attend school. What differentiates anxious attenders from non-attenders? METHOD: High school students (N = 865) were assigned to groups based on anxiety and absenteeism scores. These groups...

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Autores principales: Ingul, Jo Magne, Nordahl, Hans M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3726429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23886245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-12-25
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description BACKGROUND: Anxiety is a major risk factor for problematic school absenteeism. However, most anxious students attend school. What differentiates anxious attenders from non-attenders? METHOD: High school students (N = 865) were assigned to groups based on anxiety and absenteeism scores. These groups were then tested for differences in risk factor profiles using discriminant analysis. RESULTS: Anxious school attenders were less affected by negative personality traits, total number of risk factors, social anxiety, panic, and behavioural and family problems. They also displayed greater resilience. CONCLUSIONS: This study indicates that the risk for problematic school absenteeism increases as the number of risk factors aggregate and that treatment for anxious school refusal should be based on a profile of the individual's risk factors.
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spelling pubmed-37264292013-07-30 Anxiety as a risk factor for school absenteeism: what differentiates anxious school attenders from non-attenders? Ingul, Jo Magne Nordahl, Hans M Ann Gen Psychiatry Primary Research BACKGROUND: Anxiety is a major risk factor for problematic school absenteeism. However, most anxious students attend school. What differentiates anxious attenders from non-attenders? METHOD: High school students (N = 865) were assigned to groups based on anxiety and absenteeism scores. These groups were then tested for differences in risk factor profiles using discriminant analysis. RESULTS: Anxious school attenders were less affected by negative personality traits, total number of risk factors, social anxiety, panic, and behavioural and family problems. They also displayed greater resilience. CONCLUSIONS: This study indicates that the risk for problematic school absenteeism increases as the number of risk factors aggregate and that treatment for anxious school refusal should be based on a profile of the individual's risk factors. BioMed Central 2013-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3726429/ /pubmed/23886245 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-12-25 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ingul and Nordahl; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Anxiety as a risk factor for school absenteeism: what differentiates anxious school attenders from non-attenders?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3726429/
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