ANXIETY PREVALENCE AND ITS ACADEMIC INFLUENCES AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
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2013
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Institute of Education and Research, University Of peshawar
Abstract
Naturally, every individual strives for getting satisfaction and to avoid negative
outcomes. A future oriented fear of a sort without avoidance refers to anxiety, which, in
its mild state acts as a source of motivation, however, it may lead to malfunctioning in its
severe form. The present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of anxiety among the
students at university level and to find out its influences over academic performance. The
study also focused on the major causal factors or correlates of anxiety among university
students.
Few researches have been carried out on anxiety as a vital psychological aspect
of academic performance and to analyze its causal factors among university students,
specifically in Pakistan. The main objective of the study was to determine the anxiety
levels of university students and to compare it with their academic grades in the last
exam. The study was significant as its findings and conclusions may support the
university teachers, administrators and examination conducting authorities to adopt
appropriate strategies for teaching and evaluation, while keeping in view the anxiety
levels of students. It also seems helpful for university students to overcome academic
dysfunction caused by severe anxiety.
To achieve the stated objectives, the master level students of 16th grade of
University of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan were selected out of which thirty
percent (proportionate) sample from 32 postgraduate departments of all of the six
faculties, for the session 2011-12 was taken. The total number of students taken was758,
(n=758), including 442 males and 316 females.