Adolescent Anxiety

Most people feel anxious or depressed at times. Usually from difficult situations that can lead them to feel unhappy, lonely, scared, or very worried. These are normal, everyday emotions to situations we go through daily. A few people go through these emotions day by day for no apparent reason, making it hard to go ahead with typical, ordinary life. Everyone knows how it feels to be anxious especially at an young age. You may get butterflies in your stomach when your crush tells you he likes or even when your heart is pounding because you're in danger situation. Anxiety makes you feel that way and it is normal to feel that way because it can help you cope. But if you have an anxiety disorder it isn't normal as having anxiety. An anxiety …show more content…
That some of the scales mentioned in the article are useful tools for examining adolescents anxiety and depression. The information being used by the author and its relationship to the main issue is to test the fit of measurement models, examine agreement in mother- and self-reported measures and to examine unique and shared information from both anxious and depressive symptoms. The implications of the conclusions is that anxiety and depression both have negative effects on children even though it's normal, as children are more emotional and sensitive than adults. The main concepts being used in this article is The main point of view of this study was to examine the construct validity of self- and parent-rated scales of depression and anxiety, using symptom scales such as Short Mood, Feeling Questionnaire and the General Anxiety disorder scale. I learned that 5th-11th grade children found in the structural relations between anxiety and depression symptoms in adolescents. The current study is first to examine the construct validity of two short scales of symptoms of anxiety and depression in a population-based sample of young adolescents using parallel self- and mother-rated measures. In order to examine the construct validity of psychological measures, Campbell and Fiske presented the Multitrait- Multimethod matrix, a correlation matrix which includes a set of traits measured …show more content…
Additionally revealed poor build legitimacy, particularly among the most younger children. The authors stressed the need for parallel self- and parent-report measures to allow observation. Data collected was children and their mothers reporting the children behaviour from the ages 12-13 with reports from 594 mothers and self-reports from 547 adolescents. Symptoms of anxiety were found by the General Anxiety disorder scale which is a subscale of the Coolidge Personality and Neuropsychological Inventory for