Relation between Academic Experience and Anxiety in College Students
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https://doi.org/10.4013/ctc.2021.142.09Abstract
Researches have evaluated the anxiety and college students adaptation to academic life, but few Brazilian studies investigated the relation between these variables. This study aimed to evaluate the student’s degree of academic adaptation and its relation to anxiety and sociodemographic and academic variables. This is a cross-sectional Survey research, part of a multicentric study. Participated 316 students from three institutions: Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto e Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro. Subjects answered online instruments: Questionário de Vivências Acadêmicas (QVA-r); Escala de Depressão, Ansiedade e Estresse (DASS-21) and sociodemografic/academic questionnaire. Results showed moderate degree of academic adaptation, stronger for the dimensions Carrier, Personal and Interpessonal and moderate levels of anxiety. Multiple regression indicated that higher levels of anxiety were predictor of lower degree of academic adaptation, for Carrier, Study and Institucional. For Carrier, being in a medical course was predictor of lower degree of adaptation. For anxiety, the predictors were being female, being in Nursing course and low age. This research can be considered an advance in this area due to the lack of studies on this issue. Future studies should include others universities and parts of the country.
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