The examination of levels of anxiety and depression in students preparing for university entrance exams, using several variable

The aim of this study is to determine the depression and anxiety levels of students, who studies for university entrance exams and who are in the senior year of high school, and to examine these levels according to which factors they show changes.According to this point of view, participants of this study are consisted of 193 students who educate as senior student in private high schools and public high schools of Ministry of National Education in Bahçelievler County, Istanbul, Turkey. For calculating data of the study; 21 questioned Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) for anxiety level determination, 21 questioned Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) for depression level determination and socio-demographic information form (school type, gender, mother/father education status, mother/father profession, family income level) were used. Vocal permissions were done by participants of study for continuation of research. Data are analyzed with SPSS 20,0 package programme and according to variables Kruskal Wallis test, ANOVA, Wilcoxon test, independent t test, one-sided variance test, tukey test and Spearman correlation analysis were benefited.The findings demonstrated that there is a positively directed and meaningful relation between the anxiety and depression levels of senior year students of high school. It is found that depression and anxiety do not show meaning differences in terms of student genders. Besides this; socioeconomic level does not show a meaning relation with depression and anxiety. The level of depression and anxiety does not differentiate in a meaningful way with the educational level of the mother. Similarly, although no meaningful difference is seen between the educational level of the father and depression, a meaningful difference is found between the educational level of father and anxiety. In addition, No meaningful differentiation is found between the father's dead-alive situation and anxiety and depression.