Estrés y ansiedad en niños de educación básica en la modalidad educación virtual

Abstract

The change to a virtual education has triggered symptoms related to stress and anxiety, which has a negative and significant impacto in the daily life of the infant. The objective of the study was to analyze the relationship between stress and anxiety in children of basic education in the virtual modality. The methodology applied in the research was of a quantitative approach, descriptive-correlational scope and a crosssectional study was carried out with a sample of 87 students boys and girls belonging to 4th, 5th, 6th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade of general basic education. The Child Everyday Stress Inventory (IECI) and the Spence Children´s Anxiety Scale (SCAS) were used. Among the results obtained, the predominance of the mild leve lof stress in the study group was identified with satatistically significant differences according to sex, where the prevalence of absence of stress in manifested in men, while in the women the mild and severe level predominates. The área that reflected the greatest stress was family. With respect to anxiety the normal level prevailed, followed by the mild level and no significant differences were found between the participants. Finally, it is concluded with the positive and statistically significant relationship between stress and anxiety.