DENTAL ANXIETY AS A PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE IN CHILDREN AGED 6 TO 15 YEARS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/5EVJAKeywords:
dental anxiety, emotional discomfort, childhood, emotional worries.Abstract
The dental anxiety problem takes a leading place in the modern knowledge. In the last decade, the interest to the studying of anxiety significantly strengthened due to abrupt changes in the society life caused uncertainty and unpredictability of the future and as a consequence worries of emotional stress, anxiety and dismay. Together with it, it is necessary to mention that in the present anxiety is being researched within narrow concrete applied problems (school, examinational, competitive anxiety, anxiety before visiting dentist, during dental procedures and others.) in our country. Such position in the anxiety studying is mainly conditioned by logic of domestic psychological science development in which studying of emotions, emotional condition, dominating emotional worries of the individ was carried out predominantly at psycho-physiological level, and the area of stable formations in emotional sphere in fact was left as not studied. Studying of kid’s and teenager's anxiety (genetic aspect) also carries usually pronounced applied, "official" characteristics.
