Abstract
The aim of this article was to verify how the self is associated with school anxiety. For this, 195 children of both sexes, from seven to 11 years, students from 2nd to 5th year of elementary school to a private school, volunteered answering Self Concept Scale for Children and Youth and School Anxiety Scale. The results showed a number of negative correlations between the dimensions evaluated by the scale of self with school anxiety. The social dimension of self-concept scale showed the highest correlation negatively with anxiety. This finding was confirmed in the regression analysis which showed the social dimension as the best predictor of school anxiety. Despite the correlations found, two dimensions of self, Family and School, showed no significant relationship with school anxiety scale, except the School for the 2nd year, but in a positive and low form.
Keywords:
Self concept; school psychology; learning.
