| Abstract [eng] |
The Master's Theses aim - to explore the connections of anxiety and future plans of the senior adolescents (10th grade). The study included 203 respondents (104 girls and 99 boys, 152 senior adolescents - 16 years of age and 51 senior adolescents - 17 years of age) from Vilnius gymnasium. Anxiety has been studied using A. Dževečka (2008) ,,Anxiety in social situations scale” and future plans – using R. Pivorienė (editor), (2005) ,,Achievement Motivation Scale”. The study hypotheses: 1 – senior adolescent girls feel more anxiety than boys; 2 – senior adolescent girls have bigger future plans than boys; 3 - there is a connection between senior adolescents’ anxiety and future plans. It was found that senior adolescents mainly feel anxiety in self-evaluation - self-consciousness, to a lesser extent – in interpersonal relationship and in work - the education social situations. The hypothesis that senior adolescent girls feel more anxiety than boys, has been confirmed. However, anxiety is not different in 16 years and 17 years senior adolescents’ groups. The hypothesis, that senior adolescent girls have bigger future plans than the boys, hasn‘t been confirmed. However, future plans are different in 16 years and 17 years senior adolescents’ groups. The hypothesis, that there is a connection between senior adolescents’ anxiety and future plans, hasn‘t been confirmed. Although, the connection between anxiety and future plans in girls group was not found, there was found a negative connection between anxiety and future plans in 16 years and 17 years senior adolescents groups. Because of small study sample from one city gymnasium, a study should be regarded as exploratory, but it can be used in future studies as anxiety and future plans object. |
