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Table 4 Type of anxiety in high- and low-absent anxious students

From: Anxiety as a risk factor for school absenteeism: what differentiates anxious school attenders from non-attenders?

Variable

High absence

Low absence

t Value ( df)

Significance

Whole sample a

 

high anxiety

high anxiety

  

(N= 865)

 

(N= 21)

(N= 73)

   

Social anxiety

9.24 (3.53)

7.59 (2.96)

2.15 (92)

0.034

3.32 (3.05)

Panic/somatic syndrome

12.05 (7.44)

9.14 (5.06)

2.075 (92)

0.041

2.68 (3.65)

Generalized anxiety

11.19 (3.80)

10.58 (3.14)

0.754 (92)

0.453

3.57 (3.79)

Separation anxiety

4.29 (3.05)

4.58 (2.58)

−0.446 (91)

0.657

1.20 (1.91)

  1. aThe whole sample is included for comparison.