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SOCIAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION MANIFESTED BY PREADOLESCENTS AND ADOLESCENTS ISOLATED DURING THE PANDEMIC
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the present article is a research that draws attention to a widespread social phenomenon among young people in Romania, preadolescents and adolescents who developed anxiety-depressive symptoms during pandemic isolation, as a result of restrictions that changed the relationship dynamics of all, especially those mentioned above, in a transformative stage of life, with personalities being structured, without sufficient resources to regain a psycho-emotional balance necessary to adapt to significant global situations, such as the crisis of the spread of SARS-COV-19. The children underwent a series of psycho-emotional changes during the pandemic period, when they could not be in physical contact with their loved ones, and these changes were analysed through the application of a questionnaire, online whose answers were recorded and study in this research, in order to improve the psycho-social services provided to this age risky due to permeability and big influence from environmental factors. The research tool was the questionnaire, sent by messenger to a group of preadolescents and adolescents known in the educational environment as opinion leaders with whom we disseminated information and asked other children to complete the questionnaire. All children were invited to answer the questionnaire anonymously, and the results was introduced in research on the effects of pandemic isolation on young people, to later support them in the process of readjustment to school and social life, concerned only the bravest and most extroverted, who also answered the questionnaire. The study investigated the emotional redundancies of the subjects, 25 (31.3%) male respondents and 55 (68%) feminine respondents, and we obtain 80 responses the ability to cope with unforeseen situations, resilience to imminent life changes, whether they lived in a psycho-affective climate full of safety, or, on the contrary, were victims or the protagonists of abuses of all kinds, during the mentioned period, the COVID pandemic. At the same time, through its questions, the questionnaire also investigated the support network of these children, people they invested with confidence and to whom they can tell about what they feel and experienced physically and emotionally during mentioned times, creating support networks with them
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