Characteristics of Personal Anxiety in Elementary School Children from Russia, India and Kazakhstan: Cross-Cultural Aspect
International psychological and pedagogical research and their meta-analyses establish growth in high anxiety rates among current elementary school children, which makes it relevant to examine this problem in a comprehensive way, including in a poorly known cross-cultural aspect. The purpose of the article is a cross-cultural analysis of personal anxiety characteristics in ten-year-old elementary school children from urban comprehensive schools in Russia, India and Kazakhstan. In total, 900 children participated in the research, 300 elementary school children from each country with uniform gender distribution. A. M. Prikhozhan's “Personal Anxiety Scale” (Form “A” for school children aged 10-12) was used as a diagnostic tool. As a result of the research, universal and culture-specific characteristics of personal anxiety were established in elementary school children from Russia, India and Kazakhstan. Based on factor analysis, it was found that in all three child sample groups, the indicators of interpersonal and self-reported anxiety have the greatest weight, while the weight of school-based anxiety is less prominent, which can be explained by decisive influence of the age factor on the profile of personal anxiety of ten-year-old elementary school children from different countries. Statistically significant cross-cultural differences were revealed in average indicators of all types of personal anxiety (school-based, self-reported, interpersonal, magic, general) in elementary school children from three countries according to the Kruskal-Wallis H test. The lowest anxiety values, except for self-reported, are characteristic of ten-year-old school children from Kazakhstan, while all average anxiety indicators for these school children are concentrated in the normal level range. The average anxiety levels of Russian children are also within the normal range. The highest values for all types of anxiety, related to the “slightly higher” level, were demonstrated by elementary school children from India. Identical crosscultural differences were observed separately in sample groups of boys and girls. In the group of Indian children, statistically significant gender differences were also revealed for all types of anxiety except for interpersonal anxiety. In addition, cross-cultural differences were established in the choice made by children from different countries of those situations that cause the greatest anxiety on all anxiety scales. The results obtained can be useful for practice of psychological and pedagogical support of children.
Keywords
anxiety,
personal anxiety,
elementary school child,
cross-cultural analysis,
Russia,
India,
Kazakhstan,
culture-specific characteristicsAuthors
| Ivanova Natalia V. | Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University | ivanova30nv@yandex.ru |
| Suvorova Olga V. | Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University; Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University | olgavenn@yandex.ru |
| Shadrina Irina A. | Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University | rusakova.ir2019@yandex.ru |
| Sran Sarabjit K. | Mata Sundri College for women (University of Delhi) | sarabjeetkaur@ms.du.ac.in |
| Akpayeva Assel B. | Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University | akpayeva@mail.ru |
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