Causes Of Academic Anxiety Among Tertiary Institution Students
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN METROPOLIS OF KWARA STATE]

CHAPTER FIVE
DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND REOCMMENDATIONS
Introduction
    This chapter discussed the findings of this study. It draws conclusions on the findings as well as made recommendations and suggestions for further research work. The main purpose of the study was to find out the causes of academic related anxiety employed by students of tertiary institution in Kwara State. Six null hypotheses were tested using (t-test) and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The variables used in the study were gender, type of institution, marital status, age, mode of residence and religion.
Discussion
    The findings of the study were discussed based on the research questions and hypotheses. The discussion provided clear positions on the main research questions and as well explained the hypotheses.
    From the study, the result showed that many factors are responsible for academic related anxiety among students of tertiary institutions.
    However, the factors were categories into four, vis and viser, psychological, social, economical and environmental cause. The responses revealed that fear of passing examination. Anxiety due to inability to understand what is learnt, worries of inferiority among other students, and economic background are the major caused of academic related anxiety among students of tertiary institutions. Other factors bother as fear of making grammatical error in the presence of teachers and mates.
    Lack of enough money to buy the necessary material influence of peer group, harassment by lecturers and inability to combine academic work with other responsibilities (e.g. marriage).
    The six null hypotheses formulated for the study were tested and analysed. The essence of hypothesis is to be able to establish the position of the respondents with respect to the adopted variables.
    Hypothesis one stated that there is no significant difference in the causes of academic related anxiety among students of tertiary institutions in Kwara State on the basis of gender. The result of the t-test statistical procedure revealed that both male and female respondents do not differ in their expression of the causes of academic-related anxiety. The finding agreed with the study carried out by Ajumati (2001) where significant difference was not found between the responses of male and female groups.
    Hypothesis two stated that there is no significant difference in the causes of academic related anxiety among students of tertiary institutions on the basis of type of institution. The result on analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed that there is no significant difference in the causes of academic-related anxiety among students of tertiary institutions across the institution. By implication, difference in institutions does not have my difference in the causes of academic related anxiety.
    The study of Ajumati (2001) equally established some position. Although each institution may have its specific operation, yet students faced similar anxiety problems.
    Hypothesis three stated that there is no significant difference in the causes of academic related anxiety among students of tertiary institutions on the basis of marital status. The hypothesis was accepted, they indicates that marital status does not influence the causes of academic related anxiety among students of tertiary institution. Kazeem (1973) equally found no significant difference in the relationship between anxiety level and university academic achievement when correlated across different campuses. This suggests that students of different marital status still experience similar academic related anxiety.
    Hypothesis four stated that there is no significant difference in the causes of academic related anxiety among students of tertiary institutions on the basis of age. The result of the ANOVA statistical procedure revealed that the hypothesis was accepted.