Investigating the relationship between corona anxiety and academic isolation and cognitive skills of first secondary students in Sarakhs city

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Golestan Farhangian University

2 Graduate student of Payame Noor University, Semnan, Damghan Branch, Iran

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The aim of the current research was to investigate the relationship between Corona anxiety and academic isolation and cognitive skills of first secondary students in Sarakhs city. The research method is descriptive-correlation. The statistical population included all 900 first high school students of Sarakhs city. The statistical sample based on Morgan's table, including 269 people, was selected by simple random sampling. Three research tools were used: Alipour et al.'s Corona Anxiety Questionnaire (2009), Karmi's Cognitive Skills (2001) and Diley and Gronet's (2003) Academic Isolation Questionnaire. Pearson's correlation test and regression with SPSS software were used to analyze the data. According to the results of Pearson correlation research, there is a positive and significant relationship between Corona anxiety and academic isolation, and a negative and significant relationship was observed between Corona anxiety and cognitive skills. In the second step, the physical symptoms of anxiety have entered the prediction model, and these two variables together have been able to predict 71% of the changes in academic isolation and 49% of the changes in cognitive skills.

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  • Receive Date: 13 May 2022
  • Revise Date: 30 January 2023
  • Accept Date: 03 February 2023

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