Determining the Pattern of Daily and Weekly Counterweight Oscillations of Preschool Children's Anxiety Based on the Morphology of Time

Subject Areas : Social Science Quarterly

masoud sharifi ^{1 *} , zohreh nasiri ² , mahmood heydari ³ , shahla Pakdaman ⁴

1 - Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University
2 - Ph.D student in Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University
3 - Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University.
4 - Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University.

Received: 2018-07-24 Accepted : 2018-12-02 Published : 2019-02-20

Keywords: Anxiety, Chronopsychology, Chronotype, Daily and Weekly Rhythm,

Abstract :

Studies have shown that the one of the most common emotional problems of preschool children is anxiety. sleep and awake hours are among the factors influencing anxiety. Therefore, the present study aims to determine of fluctuations the daily and weekly rhythm patterns of anxiety performance among pre-school children based on chrono type. The research’s methodology is a causal-comparative one. The participant include the pre-school students in Tehran that 100 children were selected based on the targeted sampling. Then, they were tested in different times (8, 10, 13, and 15) days and weekly (Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday) for the anxiety. The tools used in the study included Children,s Chrono Type Questionnaire (CCTQ), pre-school children behavioral problems questionnaire, and anxiety self-reporting questionnaire The data were analyzed by mixed analysis of variance. The results showed that the anxiety performance is different among the pre-school children during different for different days of week and hours of day (p