Sifting French Tweets to Investigate the Impact of Covid-19 in Triggering Intense Anxiety. Social media can be leveraged to understand public sentiment and feelings in real-time, and target public health messages based on user interests and emotions.
In this paper, we investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in triggering intense anxiety, relying on messages exchanged on Twitter. More specifically, we provide : i) a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus of tweets in French related to coronavirus, and ii) a pipeline approach (a filtering mechanism followed by Neural Network methods) to satisfactory classify messages expressing intense anxiety on social media, considering the role played by emotions.
This study aims to assess the feelings of children toward dental treatment in the
department of pediatric dentistry in order to point the reason of dental fear. The sample
includes 385 children (191 males, 194 females, aged 4-12 years) come to facu
lty of
dentistry between 1/10/2015 – 1/6/2016. The questionnaire form was adapted. Data were
analyzed using statistical program SPSS.
SMA was: fear = 2.96 , anxiety = 2.82 , trouble = 2.74 , like (desire, preference) =
3.56 , feelingsafter treatment = 3.37 , discomfort of the transaction = 1.82 , desire to repeat
the visit = 3.97. The result showed most of the children were not afraid, not worried, not
upset, and they like to repeat. While 9.9% trouble and 6.5% don't like to repeat it. We
concluded that the dental services in p.d department are effective and acceptable.
This paper introduces a negative factor that is related to foreign
language acquisition/learning and regarded as a barrier that impedes
the foreign language from accessing the brain. Even if the foreign
language is granted access, this factor prevents it from being processed
properly inside the brain, and hence no output to be produced.
This study aimed to identify the Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD) and its
relationship with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) among pupils in Basic education
stage Depending on the sample of (30) pupils from the pupils of Basic education in the
schools of the province of Tartous , The researcher used the Arab gauge of (OCD)
prepared by Ahmed Abdul Khaleq and (GAD) in children prepared by Dr. Viola
Beblawi scale, and it adopted the researcher to gain access to the results at the expense of
the Pearson correlation coefficient to measure the correlation between the two variables
and test T Student of the difference between the averages and Slope coefficient to measure
the predictive ability. The study found the presence of statistically significant correlation
between (OCD) and (GAD) among respondents and it demonstrated a statistically
significant differences in the proportion of (OCD) between males and females in the target
sample disturbance differences in favor of females (females received higher grades than
males on the obsessive-compulsive scale scores than males) , While the results did not
indicate the existence of any differences in Anxiety between male and female respondents,
The results also indicate that it is possible to predict the existence of (GAD) among
individuals who suffer from (OCD) a high percentage .The search is over a number of
proposal .
This study aimed at investigating future anxiety and its relationship with the
psychological stress on a sample of Tishreen University students. Furthermore, the study
attempted to explore whether students differ according to their gender in the fu
ture anxiety
and the psychological stress.
The sample comprised of (188) students: (95 male and 93 female). In order to
achieve the goals of this study the Inventory of University Students’ Anxiety Future was
constructed. The final version of the scale consisted of (28) items. And the Inventory of
University Students’ Sources of psychological stress was constructed, the final version of
the scale consisted of (60) items. The results showed: there are correlation statistically
significant between the future anxiety and the psychological stress. The results also
indicated to significant differences (α≤ 0.05) between males and females means in the
psychological stress, and its indicated to no differences between males and females in the
future anxiety.
The aim of the research was to identify the relationship
between the two levels of social anxiety and psychological
Hardiness among the general secondary school students in
Damascus city, and their differences in the levels of social
anxiety and
psychological Hardiness according to gender and
grade. The study sample consisted of (698) male and female
students who were randomly selected from the general
secondary schools in Damascus. The social anxiety scale (the
researcher's preparation) and the mental hardness scale (Maddi
& Koshaba, 2001) were applied after verifying their validity
and stability.
Aim of the research to identify the relationship between social
Anxiety and parental treatment styles on a sample of outstanding
students in the province of Damascus, and to know of the differences
among a sample search in the social Anxiety and p
arental treatment
styles according to the number of family members. The sample of
the research Consisted (452) students from outstanding was selected
purposely from two schools (Al Bassel secondary for outstanding in
Mezze, and Al Bassel secondary for outstanding in the kanoat), and
Has been prepared social Anxiety Scale and parental treatment styles
Scale by the researcher after were applied to the sample members
After verification of their validity and reliability.
This study aims to examine the relationship between social support
and future anxiety, and exploring the level of social support and
determine whether there were statistically significant differences
between males and females in the social support
, and determine
whether there were statistically significant differences between
males and females in the future anxiety.
The sample consisted of (322) students (154 male-168 female) from
Damascus university students fourth year.
The researcher applied social support scale and future anxiety scale.
This study aimed to evaluate the fear and the anxiety in
children in the dental clinic at the first visit and observe the change
in the behavior of children when using dental instruments and
materials by comparing between Chemomechanical caries removal
(CMCR) and rotary instruments in removing caries.
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the fear and the anxiety in
children in the dental clinic at the first visit and observe the change
in the behavior of children when using dental instruments and
materials by comparing between Chemomechanical caries removal
(CMCR) and rotary instruments in removing caries.
