20.500.12556/DiRROS-22893 Anxiety in a COVID-19 school year context three-way longitudinal study on Slovenian adolescent sample Background and Objectives:We investigated the trajectories of anxiety,general anxiety and more specifically COVID-19 anxiety in the period ofschool closure in Slovenia using a longitudinal design with three timepoints: at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the school year.Design and Methods:We have used data from a representativeadolescent sample for Slovenia (n= 1233) and two anxiety scales: theLAOM Anxiety Scale and the COVID-19 Anxiety Scale. Thefindings fromlatent growth curve models show a significant difference in initial levelsand a decrease in both types of anxiety as well as an interaction effectbetween the initial level and the rate of change of COVID-19 anxiety. Inaddition to investigating the change in time, we were interested incovariates.Results and Conclusions:Thefindings show significant effects of: (a)gender, school level and academic achievement on initial levels ofCOVID-19 anxiety; (b) gender and school level on initial levels ofanxiety; (c) gender on the rate of change in anxiety; (d) academicachievement on the rate of change in COVID-19 anxiety; and,additionally, (e) the significant but different role that schoolbelongingness plays in anxiety and in particular COVID-19 anxiety. education schoolbelongingnes adolescents grades gender covid-19 anxiety covid-19 anxiety longitudinal study Slovenia vzgoja in izobraževanje pripadnost šoli adolescenti spol ocene covid-19 anksioznost covid-19 anksioznost longitudinalna študija Slovenija true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2025-07-08 09:15:01 2025-07-08 09:15:01 2025-10-24 03:52:28 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 Nasl. z nasl. zaslona; Opis vira z dne 6. 12. 2023; Str. 1-16 4. 12. 2023 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2023-12-04 37.014(497.4):159.96 1477-2205 10.1080/10615806.2023.2269858 175016451 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/10615806.2023.2269858?needAccess=true 1 4439f904-5bcb-11f0-8080-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=33338 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10615806.2023.2269858 1 440cd822-5bcb-11f0-8080-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=33337 RAZ_Kozina_Ana_2023.pdf RAZ_Kozina_Ana_2023.pdf 1 56A325034E19C1354F019D944763256F 15695e7743a91bf494ad5bd8fff25cd7ccb18240a0e45396aca28775e4b29844 534b892f-5bcb-11f0-8080-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=33339 Pedagoški inštitut 0 0 0