{"id":437318,"date":"2017-07-26T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=cace57899b50a3297ea210ee3bc66d18"},"modified":"2017-07-26T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T23:00:00","slug":"correlation-of-understanding-of-physics-and-psychological-symptoms-among-high-school-students-ingreece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=437318","title":{"rendered":"Correlation of understanding of physics and psychological symptoms among high-school students in\r\nGreece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depression may essentially influence cognitive function contributing to poor school performance. The<br \/>\npresent study undertakes to determine the existence and strength of correlation between depressive<br \/>\nsymptomatology and other mental conditions with the acquired level of understanding of Newtonian<br \/>\nphysics taught in schools. The current study recruited 490 students (262 girls, 228 boys) attending<br \/>\nthe first semester of the Greek Second Grade of General Lyceum School. Force Concept Inventory (FCI)<br \/>\ntested the depth of the students\u2019 understanding of Newtonian Physics. Symptom Checklist-90-R<br \/>\nassessed general mental status. The tests took place in the classroom during a 1\u2009h session. Low FCI<br \/>\nscores significantly correlated with mental conditions, with depression ranking first. Girls had<br \/>\nhigher scores in all nine symptoms scales of SCL-90 and lower FCI scores. Stepwise regression models<br \/>\nproved that the gender effect on FCI could be effectively explained through the significant effect<br \/>\nof de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depression may essentially influence cognitive function contributing to poor school performance. The<br \/>\npresent study undertakes to determine the existence and strength of correlation between depressive<br \/>\nsymptomatology and other mental conditions with th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}