The Survey of the Role of Gender in Respect to Test Anxiety in the City of Urmia's Medical Sciences University Students in 2016

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 376
Author(s):  
Ali Reza Salar ◽  
Rahim Baghaei ◽  
Sadegh Zare ◽  
Hesam Salar
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Revisiting the Role of Worries in Explaining the Link Between Test Anxiety and Test Performance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frieder L. Schillinger ◽  
Jochen A. Mosbacher ◽  
Clemens Brunner ◽  
Stephan E. Vogel ◽  
Roland H. Grabner
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Inverse Relationship ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
General Intelligence ◽  
Mathematical Competencies ◽  
And Performance

AbstractThe inverse relationship between test anxiety and test performance is commonly explained by test-anxious students’ tendency to worry about a test and the consequences of failing. However, other cognitive facets of test anxiety have been identified that could account for this link, including interference by test-irrelevant thoughts and lack of confidence. In this study, we compare different facets of test anxiety in predicting test performance. Seven hundred thirty university students filled out the German Test Anxiety Inventory after completing a battery of standardized tests assessing general intelligence and mathematical competencies. Multiple regressions revealed that interference and lack of confidence but not worry or arousal explained unique variance in students’ test performance. No evidence was found for a curvilinear relationship between arousal and performance. The present results call for revisiting the role of worries in explaining the test anxiety-performance link and can help educators to identify students who are especially at risk of underperforming on tests.

scholarly journals Practicality, support or premeditated calculation in the digital age: the case of Ecuador

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (6 Edición Especial) ◽  
pp. 29-46
Author(s):  
Arturo Luque González
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
University Students ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
End Users ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Conceptual Debate ◽  
Transnational Companies ◽  
The City ◽  
Technological Platforms

This paper aims to analyze the attitudes among young Ecuadorians with regard to processes of technological practicality. It seeks to identify the turning points in the decision-making process regarding the transfer of data and to examine the associated conceptual debate surrounding the role of related participants, such as governments, supranational organizations, transnational companies and end-users. Interviews were conducted with 299 university students in the city of Ambato, Ecuador, using quantitative techniques. The participants stated that they were aware of practicality but not of its effects and limitations, indicating that not everyone would be willing to give up part of their privacy in return for benefits in frequently used applications such as Facebook, WhatsApp or Netflix. Generally, participants felt dominated by technology, which often masks the processes of dependency associated with the costs and custody of data surrendered in exchange for a benefit. Issues of fairness and security in the treatment of data and the uneven coverage of services highlight a need for greater regulation of technological platforms.

The unknown city: Visual arts-based educational research on the living city experiences of university students

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafaèle Genet-Verney ◽  
Ricardo Marín-Viadel ◽  
Antonio Fernández-Morillas
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Artistic Values ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Through an Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) methodology, we explore the urban perceptions of fourth-year university students from the School of Education at the University of Granada (Spain). ABER methodologies provide a subtle, representative and sensitive approach to the urban experience. In this study, we surveyed 130 students, asking them to draw and cut out a city map of Granada. This was done in order to reveal the known boundaries of the city and to identify the parts yet to be discovered by the students. With these answers as collected data, an ABER analysis was carried out through the production of visual media. Assessing findings quantitatively and visually allowed for the further investigation of students’ knowledge of the city. This inquiry questions the role of the graphic map in research and the boundaries between its technical and artistic values. These findings validate the use of ABER instruments to investigate the city and enhance understanding of the way students live the urban life.

The Role of Self-Control Strength in the Development of State Anxiety in Test Situations

2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 976-991 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Englert ◽  
A. Bertrams
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
University Students ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Control Strength ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Affect State

Self-control strength may affect state anxiety because emotion regulation is impaired in individuals whose self-control strength has been temporarily depleted. Increases in state anxiety were expected to be larger for participants with depleted compared to nondepleted self-control strength, and trait test anxiety should predict increases in state anxiety more strongly if self-control strength is depleted. In a sample of 76 university students, trait test anxiety was assessed, self-control strength experimentally manipulated, and state anxiety measured before and after the announcement of a test. State anxiety increased after the announcement. Trait test anxiety predicted increases in state anxiety only in students with depleted self-control strength, suggesting that increased self-control strength may be useful for coping with anxiety.

scholarly journals Disordered eating attitudes among Iranian university students of medical sciences: The role of body image perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-133
Author(s):  
Maryam Momeni ◽  
Azam Ghorbani ◽  
Zahra Arjeini
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Image ◽  
University Students ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Body Image Dissatisfaction ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Eating Attitudes Test ◽  
Disordered Eating Attitudes

Background: Disordered eating attitudes and behaviors have become an issue of worldwide concern. Aim: This research was designed to investigate the role of body image satisfaction in the relationship with eating attitudes among students of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences in Iran. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 385 Qazvin university students of medical sciences were recruited by randomized stratified sampling in 2014. The students completed a three-part questionnaire (socio-demographic, Eating Attitudes Test and Body Shape Questionnaire) in their classrooms. We used hierarchical generalized linear models to identify variables significantly associated with Eating Attitudes Test scores. Results: The mean age of the students was 21.80 ± 2.98 years. Mean scores for the Eating Attitudes Test and Body Shape Questionnaire were 66.75 ± 29.8 and 11.86 ± 10.97 respectively; 18.5% of students had a score of 20 and above (≥ 20) that indicated disordered eating attitudes or as being at risk of eating disorders. In the multiple regression model, the Eating Attitudes Test was related to screening body image dissatisfaction (β = 0.122, P < 0.001). Body mass index was negatively related to the Eating Attitudes Test score (β= -0.488, P < 0.016), and diet was significantly correlated with an increased Eating Attitudes Test score (β = 5.803, P < 0.001). Conclusions: The risk of eating disorders is relatively high among Iranian university students. It can be a warning to health policy makers and should be the focus of special attention. In the present study, the most important factor related to abnormal eating attitudes was body image dissatisfaction. Regarding the complexity of the causes of eating disorders, various preventive and therapeutic interventions are necessary to avoid the dissemination in society of an idealized view of excessive thinness and further unfavorable outcomes in college students.

Self-Handicapping Among University Students: The Role of Procrastination, Test Anxiety, Self-Esteem, and Self-Compassion

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 825-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Funda Barutçu Yıldırım ◽  
Ayhan Demir
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Stepwise Regression ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Predictor Variables ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Compassion Scale ◽  
Anxiety Subscale

The purpose of the present study was to examine the predictor role of procrastination, test anxiety, self-esteem, and self-compassion for the variation in university students’ self-handicapping. The sample of the study consisted of 801 undergraduate students (404 females and 397 males). In order to collect data, Self-Handicapping Scale, Tuckman Procrastination Scale, Anxiety Subscale of Academic Emotions Questionnaire, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and Self-Compassion Scale were used. Stepwise regression analysis was conducted, and results showed that all of the predictor variables significantly contributed in explaining self-handicapping. The model explained the 59% of the variance in self-handicapping, whereas semi-partial variance of procrastination, test anxiety, self-esteem, and self-compassion were 17%, 4%, 2%, and 2%, respectively.

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