COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ANXIETY AND COGNITIVE INDICATORS IN ADOLESCENTS BEFORE AND AFTER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

The 21 st century will be remembered with the problems made by the Covid-19 pandemic and its role as a major stressor causing serious damage to health indicators. There have been various pandemics on Earth up to our time. However, the pandemic caused by coronavirus is considered the most severe: a number of adverse phenomena such as infection of people regardless of their social status, place of residence, financial situation, background, intellectual level, and most importantly age, the number of cases ending in death, the occurrence of serious health problems in those who have had disease, reduction of human life, shortening, inability of the immune system to recover over a long period of time, increased cognitive dysfunctions, significant psychological distress and behavioral changes caused. The study reflects the impact of pandemic stress on psychophysiological indicators in adolescents aged 12 and 13. It should be noted that before the pandemic, in February 2020