Anxiety related emotional disorders in primary school children

Children differ from adolescents and adults in their interpretation and ability to express their experience. They simply know that something is going wrong and that they are very afraid. Children can only describe the physical symptoms. They have not yet developed the constructs to put these symptoms together and label them as fear. The objective of present study was to understand the prevalence of anxiety related disorders and gender differences among children. The sample size of present research was 200 children. The sample consists of 100 boys and 100 girls between ages 9-11 years. The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED) scale by Birmaher et al. (1999) was administered individually on all the participants. Results indicated there is significant difference between boys and girls on different anxiety related disorders.