A Research for Identifying Study Anxiety Sources among University Students
University students suffer to some levels of study anxiety, such as; have new experiences, environment and situation. Study anxiety is a real phenomenon. Campus environment has universal access to increase study anxiety among students. The prevalence of study anxiety has been acknowledged by stude...
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| Language: | English |
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Canadian Center of Science and Education
2010
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| Online Access: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/4636/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/4636/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/4636/1/4834-18511-1-PB.pdf |
| Summary: | University students suffer to some levels of study anxiety, such as; have new experiences, environment and
situation. Study anxiety is a real phenomenon. Campus environment has universal access to increase study
anxiety among students. The prevalence of study anxiety has been acknowledged by students and educators.
However, no current research exists to identify the study anxiety sources among university students. In this
research, we present a survey aimed to identify of study anxiety sources among university students. The survey
involves 770 students of Universiti Malaysia Pahang. The survey asks students about experiences, feelings and
thoughts related with anxieties during study process. The results identify seven sources. But, there are five
potential sources of study anxiety; exam anxiety, class presentation anxiety, mathematic anxiety, language
anxiety and social anxiety. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data which was run in SPSS 16.0. The
results will be used to address study anxiety sources among university students.
Keywords: Study anxiety sources, University students, Academic performance |
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