ANXIETY MANIFESTATION IN ADOLESCENCE

Anxiety is part of human existence and is characterized by a sense of imminent danger. It can be defined as increased emotional unrest in anticipation of danger (Rieman, 2005). It differs from fear, which is an emotional response to an objective threatening. Fear and anxiety are an intrinsic feature of the human condition with adaptive function and are parts of the normal development. The distinction between fear and anxiety, is given by the quality of the anticipatory experience anxiety versus fear, which focuses on a specific object. The pathological nature of these feelings is due to the increasing frequency of manifestations, their severity and their abnormal pesistence. The author presents the research done on two groups of subjects (students in twelfth grade and students in grade nine) to determine the differences between their share of anxiety, and highlight the weight of one or the other forms of anxiety (veiled or overt) and the personality factors that cause anxiety.