Table 3.
Psychosocial problems in high- and low-absent anxious students
|
Variable |
High absence |
Low absence |
|
Significance |
Whole samplea |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
high anxiety |
high anxiety |
|
|
(N = 865) |
|
| (N = 21) | (N = 73) | t Value ( df ) | χ2 ( df ) | |||
| Negative life events |
4.32 (2.58) |
3.25 (2.39) |
1.70 (86) |
|
0.093 |
1.88 (1.87) |
| Resilience |
3.24 (0.76) |
3.50 (0.61) |
−1.54 (80) |
|
0.127 |
3.99 (0.63) |
| No. of close friends |
4.04 (1.35) |
4.76 (0.54) |
−3.66 (82.53) |
|
0.000 |
4.62 (0.85) |
| Family economy |
3.29 (1.52) |
2.88 (1.16) |
1.14 (27.17) |
|
0.263 |
2.54 (1.11) |
| Categorical variables |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Father working (% yes) |
87.5 |
81.8 |
|
0.29 (1) |
0.588 |
92.4 |
| Mother working (% yes) |
68.8 |
68.1 |
|
0.002 (1) |
0.961 |
82.5 |
| Being bullied at school (% yes) |
10 |
35.7 |
|
4.89 (1) |
0.027 |
8.4 |
| Feeling safe in school (% yes) |
28.57 |
36.62 |
|
0.166 (1) |
0.683 |
89.8 |
| Treated with respect in school (% yes) |
95.20 |
81.94 |
|
4.21 (1) |
0.040 |
94.60 |
| Chronic illness (% yes) |
42.86 |
35.62 |
|
0.589 (1) |
0.443 |
30.6 |
| Perception of own health (% bad) | 66.67 | 41.10 | 4.28 (1) | 0.038 | 15.1 | |
aThe whole sample is included for comparison.