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Influence Of Gender And Mode Of Study On Examination Anxiety Among Undergraduates
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study:
Low
performance of students in exams especially external exam is no longer
news in Nigeria. Over the years, stakeholders in this field having been
working tirelessly to remedy the ugly phenomena unfortunately, their
effort is yet to yield any significant impact. A situation that is
giving all the tiers of Nigerian Government sleepless night.
Various
factors have been identified as hindrance to promoting academic
excellence in Nigeria, among which are, poor funding of education, lack
of infrastructure in the school, lack of man-power etc. On the part of
the students, lack of interest, love for money or what is known as get
rich quick syndrome were identified. Unfortunately, none of them was
able to see exam anxiety. At times, students will read very well yet he
or she will perform poorly in exam simply because of tension. Exam
itself causes anxiety to some students (Nelson, 2001). studies have
shown that exam anxiety makes a student to forget all that he or she
studied (Nelson 2002).
Clear understanding of features of
anxiety is enough proof to it’s effect on remembering. Anxiety causes
muscle tension which makes the brain t be unrelaxed thereby causing
forgetfulness.
Anxiety is complex and mysterious. The more
you learn about it, the more baffling it seems. It is a negative mood
state that is characterized by bodily symptoms of physical tension and
apprehension about the future. (American Psychological Association 1994;
Durand & Barlow 2002). It can also be seen as a subjective sense
of unease, a set of behaviours (such as looking worried, anxious or
fidgeting) or a physiological response originating in the brain and
reflecting on elevated heart rate and muscle tension.
During anxiety reactions or response, the heart, lungs, and other parts
of the body work faster. The brain also releases the emergence (stress)
hormone adrenaline and cortisol (Obidigbo, 2008) people who experience
this disorder usually report being unhappy and behavious is maladaptive.
In
school, some students experience some kind of anxiety disorder within
their stay in school, (Nelson, 2002) and the most common is examination
anxiety. Examination anxiety may manifest among students through
admission of wrong or series of unwarranted fear, rapid breathing,
through meticulous cautions. (Nelson 2002).
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study investigated the influence of gender and mode of study on examination anxiety among undergraduates. 77 regular students (37 males and 40 females) and 53 mature students (28 males and 25 females) were sampled. The sample were randomly selected from the population of both mature and regular students of Enugu State University of Science and Technology. The age range of the mature students were between 35 – 54 years with a mean age of 47 years and standard deviation of 6 years, whi ... Continue reading---
