Connection of the school anxiety, adaptation at school and emotional state of the students of the 5th and 8th forms

Work object: connection of the school anxiety, adaptation at school and emotional state of the students of the 5th and 8th forms. Actuality of the work: at school every student has several stages of development and adaptation. One of the most specific stages starts when a pupil finishes primary school and starts attending the 5th form, and he/she is confronted with a variety of unknown for him social and personal problems, such as: subject teaching system, a lot of teachers of different subjects; classroom system, because of which a child has lost his/her permanent studying place - a classroom, to which he/she got used; in addition, a new evaluation system - evaluation by marks has started; the school, the class, the classmates are often changed; it is difficult to part with the first teacher. The beginning of the early adolescence makes the situation for pupils of the 5th form more complicated. Adaptation at school lasts during the whole period of studying. Teachers, school curriculum, student's personality are changing not only in the 5th form but in the upper forms. For these reasons students feel tension, he/she can also be in the state of unsafety, distrust, desperation and anxiety. The child is made special demands by specific social surroundings, which not equally match with his/her individual abilities and likes. All these reasons complicate and lengthen the students' adaptational period, difficulties of the school anxiety are starting at this moment, and some of the students start feeling worsening of their emotional state. In this work the expression of the school anxiety, adaptation at school and emotional state as well as the interconnections of these processes during the first and last stages of early adolescence (age: 12-15) (Žukauskienė, 2002) are being analysed. Goal of study: to identify the connection between the anxiety of the students of the 5th and 8th forms, their adaptation at school and their emotional state. Tasks of study: 1. To assess and to compare the levels of the anxiety of the students of the 5th and 8th forms, of their adaptation at school and of their emotional state as well. 2. To identify the interconnection of the anxiety of the students of the 5th form, of their adaptation at school and of their emotional state. 3. To analyse the interconnection of the anxiety of the students of the 8th form, of their adaptation at school and of their emotional state. Hypotheses: 1. The level of school anxiety of the 5-form girls is higher in compare with the evaluation of the level of the boys' school anxiety. 2. The better the assessment of the emotional state of the students of the 5th and 8th forms the less obvious are the difficulties of adaptation at school. Main results and findings: The average evaluation of school anxiety of the students of the 5th forms and standard deflexion is 13,12±6,16, of the students of the 8th forms is 12,52±6,14 respectevely. The researches have shown that the level of school anxiety of all students of the 5th and 8th forms could be included in the subgroup of low level. Having compared the results of school anxiety of the students of the 5th and 8th forms statistically meaningful differences were not found (p>0,05). The average evaluation of adaptation at school of the students of the 5th forms and standard deflexion is 62,84±8,45 (of the girls' - 67,69±6,99, of the boys' - 57,53±6,55; p0,05) respectevely. The researches have shown that the level of emotional state of all students of the 5th and 8th forms could be included in the subgroup of good level. Having compared the results of emotional state of the students of the 5th and 8th forms it was found statistically meaninful difference (p<0,05) and that emotional state of the students of the 5th forms is better than the emotional state of the students of the 8th forms. Under the analyses of the connection between school anxiety, adaptation at school and emotional state of all students of the 5th forms, it was found that there is a statistical connection between evaluation of school anxiety and emotional state (p<0,01) as well as between evaluation of adaptation at school and of emotional state (p<0,01), and in the group of the students of the 8th forms- between all indicators (p