Current status of social anxiety and depression among primary school students in Urumqi, China

• Published in: Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi Vol. 20; no. 8; p. 670
• Main Authors: Lin, Su-Lan, Wang, Dan, Xian, Ya-Jing, Yang, Jing, Wu, Ping-Ping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: China 01.08.2018
• Subjects: Adolescent; Anxiety - epidemiology; Anxiety - ethnology; Child; China - epidemiology; China - ethnology; Depression - epidemiology; Depression - ethnology; Fear; Female; Humans; Male; Schools - statistics & numerical data; Self Concept; Social Behavior; Students - psychology; Students - statistics & numerical data; China
• ISSN: 1008-8830

To investigate the current status of social anxiety and depression among the fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students in Urumqi, China, and to provide data support for mental health education for primary school students in the future. Stratified cluster random sampling was performed to select 919 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students from four primary schools for the Han and minority ethnic groups in Urumqi as research subjects. Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Children's Depression Inventory were used to evaluate the current status of social anxiety and depression. Among the 919 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students, the detection rate of social anxiety was 28.5% (262 students). The fourth-grade students had significantly lower scores on each subscale of social anxiety and total score of social anxiety than the fifth- and sixth-grade students (P<0.05). Girls had significantly higher score on the subscale of fear of negative evaluation and total score of social anxiety than boys (P<0.05). The Uy