scholarly journals Determinants of General Chemistry Success of Engineering Students in PLTL and Traditional Classroom: State Anxiety and Test Anxiety

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 01051
Author(s):  
Ece N. Eren-Sisman ◽  
Ceyhan Cigdemoglu ◽  
Ömer Geban
Keyword(s):  
General Chemistry ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Private University ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Learning Group

The purpose is to find out whether state and test anxiety can predict general chemistry grade in peer-led team learning group (PLTL) and non-PLTL groups and to explore their predictability of the grade after controlling the influence of trait anxiety. The sample consisted of a total 128 freshman engineering students attending general chemistry in a private university. STAI and RTT instruments and exams were used to generate data which were analyzed by using standard and hierarchical multiple regression. The findings revealed that in both groups the combination of predictors is significantly related to general chemistry grade, having the strongest unique contribution of test anxiety; however, it was only statistically significant for PLTL group. After controlling the effect of trait anxiety, test anxiety still makes a unique significant contribution for PLTL group. Accordingly, test anxiety can be used to predict the general chemistry grade of PLTL students.

The effect of peer-led team learning on undergraduate engineering students’ conceptual understanding, state anxiety, and social anxiety

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 694-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. N. Eren-Sisman ◽  
C. Cigdemoglu ◽  
O. Geban
Keyword(s):  
General Chemistry ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Control Group ◽  
College Instruction ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Experimental Group

This study aims to compare the effectiveness of a Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) model with that of traditional college instruction (TCI) in enhancing the conceptual understanding and reducing both the state anxiety and social anxiety of undergraduate engineering students in a general chemistry course in a quasi-experimental design. 128 engineering students taking the course participated in the study. One of the course sections was randomly assigned to the experimental group and the other section was assigned to the control group. Both sections were taught by the same instructor. The control group was instructed using traditional college instruction, while the experimental group was instructed using the PLTL model. Throughout this study, six peer-led chemistry workshops and leader training sessions were performed simultaneously. The General Chemistry Concept Test, the State–Trait Anxiety Inventory, and the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults were administered before and after the treatment to both groups. One-way Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) indicated that after controlling students’ university entrance scores, trait anxiety scores and pre-test scores of both the General Chemistry Concept Test and state anxiety, the PLTL model was more effective in improving the conceptual understanding and reducing the situational anxiety of engineering students in undergraduate general chemistry. However, it was not so effective in lessening their social anxiety when compared to traditional college instruction.

State and Trait Components of Test Anxiety and Their Implications for Treatment

1980 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 475-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
James T. Trent ◽  
Wayne A. Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety

This study examines the relationships among state, trait, and test anxiety, and GPA in a sample of 87 undergraduate volunteers. Of those students 21 met the criteria for classification as test-anxious and participated in the treatment portion of the study. Pretreatment, posttreatment and follow-up scores of treated subjects on all anxiety scales and GPA were examined. The results suggest that test anxiety is more similar to trait anxiety than state anxiety. Furthermore, significant negative correlations between anxiety and GPA were noted. The treatment, 4 hr of group desensitization, seemed to be more effective with trait anxiety and test anxiety. The results are discussed in terms of factors which may account for the similarity between trait and test anxiety and the role of desensitization as a treatment.

Effects of Fear Induction on Heart Period Variability

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolf Stark ◽  
Alfons Hamm ◽  
Anne Schienle ◽  
Bertram Walter ◽  
Dieter Vaitl
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Heart Period ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Heart Period Variability ◽  
Physiological Variables ◽  
Period Variability

Abstract The present study investigated the influence of contextual fear in comparison to relaxation on heart period variability (HPV), and analyzed differences in HPV between low and high anxious, nonclinical subjects. Fifty-three women participated in the study. Each subject underwent four experimental conditions (control, fear, relaxation, and a combined fear-relaxation condition), lasting 10 min each. Fear was provoked by an unpredictable aversive human scream. Relaxation should be induced with the aid of verbal instructions. To control for respiratory effects on HPV, breathing was paced at 0.2 Hz using an indirect light source. Besides physiological measures (HPV measures, ECG, respiration, forearm EMG, blood pressure), emotional states (pleasure, arousal, dominance, state anxiety) were assessed by subjects' self-reports. Since relaxation instructions did not have any effect neither on the subjective nor on the physiological variables, the present paper focuses on the comparison of the control and the fear condition. The scream reliably induced changes in both physiological and self-report measures. During the fear condition, subjects reported more arousal and state anxiety as well as less pleasure and dominance. Heart period decreased, while EMG and diastolic blood pressure showed a tendency to increase. HPV remained largely unaltered with the exception of the LF component, which slightly decreased under fear induction. Replicating previous findings, trait anxiety was negatively associated with HPV, but there were no treatment-specific differences between subjects with low and high trait anxiety.

State‐Trait Anxiety Inventory State Anxiety Scale--Parent Version

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey M. Shain ◽  
Maryland Pao ◽  
Mary V. Tipton ◽  
Sima Zadeh Bedoya ◽  
Sun J. Kang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
Parent Version

scholarly journals Anxiety- and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Patients With Breast Cancer: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of China and the United States

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Jin You ◽  
Qian Lu ◽  
Michael J. Zvolensky ◽  
Zhiqiang Meng ◽  
Kay Garcia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United States ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Chinese Patients

Purpose Literature has documented the prevalence of anxiety and its adverse effect on quality of life among patients with breast cancer from Western countries, yet cross-cultural examinations with non-Western patients are rare. This cross-cultural study investigated differences in anxiety and its association with quality of life between US and Chinese patients with breast cancer. Methods Patients with breast cancer from the United States and China completed measures for anxiety (Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) and quality of life (Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast). Results After controlling for demographic and medical characteristics, Chinese patients reported higher levels of trait and state anxiety than US patients. Although there was an association between anxiety and quality of life in both groups of patients, the association between state anxiety and quality of life was stronger among Chinese patients than among US patients, with the association between trait anxiety and quality of life the same between the two cultural samples. Conclusion These findings suggest that anxiety and its association with quality of life among patients with breast cancer varies depending on cultural context, which reveals greater anxiety and poorer quality of life among Chinese patients compared with US patients. This suggests greater unmet psychosocial needs among Chinese patients and highlights the need to build comprehensive cancer care systems for a better quality of life in Chinese populations.

On the Relationship between Machiavellianism and Anxiety among Italian Undergraduates

1985 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Nigro ◽  
I. Galli
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
Italian Version ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
The Relationship

139 Italian undergraduates (61 men and 78 women) responded to the Italian version of the Christie's Mach IV scale and to the Italian version of the Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Positive correlations between Mach IV scores and both State Anxiety and Trait Anxiety scores were found for both sexes. The authors hypothesized that moderate anxiety may be associated with high Machiavellianism. Further implications of the findings were discussed.

Anxiety in Asthma: Panic-Fear Symptomatology and Personality in Relation to Manifest Anxiety

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Kinsman ◽  
Jerald F. Dirks ◽  
Nancy Wray Dahlem ◽  
Audrey S. Heller
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Symptom Scale ◽  
Asthmatic Patients ◽  
Asthma Attack ◽  
Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale ◽  
Symptom Reports ◽  
Symptom Scores ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
Moderate Relationship

Anxiety in asthma has been measured in two ways. The MMPI Panic-Fear scale is a measure of general, nonillness specific anxiety and the Panic-Fear symptom scale of the Asthma Symptom Checklist is a measure of illness-specific anxiety focused on the asthma attack. Both measures relate to response styles in asthma which contribute to the maintenance of illness. In the present study of 140 asthmatic patients, MMPI Panic-Fear scores were highly related to trait-anxiety measured by the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, even after partialling out checklist Panic-Fear symptom scores. In contrast, Panic-Fear symptomatology had a more moderate relationship to the Taylor Anxiety scores and was independent of the Taylor scores after partialling out MMPI Panic-Fear scores. The results support earlier findings suggesting that MMPI Panic-Fear measures trait anxiety. In contrast, checklist Panic-Fear symptom reports measure an illness-specific state anxiety that is not per se a measure of trait anxiety.

scholarly journals State Anxiety Is Associated with Cardiovascular Reactivity in Young, Healthy African Americans

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mildred A. Pointer ◽  
Sadiqa Yancey ◽  
Ranim Abou-Chacra ◽  
Patricia Petrusi ◽  
Sandra J. Waters ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Cardiovascular Reactivity ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Blood Pressure Response ◽  
Cold Pressor ◽  
Pressure Response ◽  
Anxiety State ◽  
Stress Tests

Although several studies have shown that enhanced cardiovascular reactivity can predict hypertension development in African Americans, these findings have not been consistent among all studies examining reactivity and hypertension susceptibility. This inconsistency may be explained by the influence of anxiety (state and trait) on the blood pressure response to stress. Therefore, this study sought to determine whether anxiety is associated with blood pressure response to cold pressor (CP) and anger recall (AR) stress tests in young healthy African Americans. Modeling using state and trait anxiety revealed that state anxiety predicts systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure DBP response to CP and AR (P≤0.02). Interestingly, state anxiety predicted heart rate changes only to CP (P<0.01;P=0.3for AR). Although trait anxiety was associated with SBP response to AR and not CP, it was not a significant predictor of reactivity in our models. We conclude that anxiety levels may contribute to the variable blood pressure response to acute stressors and, therefore, should be assessed when performing cardiovascular reactivity measures.

Digital skills and complex thinking in engineering students of a particular university in Lima in times of pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3C) ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Luis Alex Valenzuela Fernández ◽  
Violeta Cadenillas Albornoz ◽  
Blanca Soledad Zavala Alfaro ◽  
Jean Paul Suazo Zárate ◽  
Cesar Ulloa-Silvestre
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Private University ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
Management Communication ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Complex Thinking ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Medium Level

This article focuses on the relationship of digital skills and complex thinking in engineering students from a private university in Lima, Peru. A non-experimental, descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional quantitative study was carried out. The sample consisted of 175 engineering students who were administered the questionnaires developed in Google Forms for digital skills and the complex XXI scale to measure complex thinking with reliability values of .965 and .941 respectively for the alpha of Cronbach. The descriptive results showed that 48% of the respondents were found at the medium level of digital skills and that in the case of complex thinking there was a significant tie between the medium and high levels (approximately 41%). It was concluded that there was a strong and positive correlation between digital skills and complex thinking (Pearson's correlation = .759). In addition, four dimensions of digital literacy were evaluated (information management, communication management, wearable technology management and organizational aspects) which showed a positive and moderate relationship with complex thinking.

Feedback and Anxiety in Verbal Discrimination Learning

1984 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 895-899 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. G. Schneider ◽  
G. D. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Discrimination Learning ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Negative Feedback ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Verbal Discrimination ◽  
Verbal Discrimination Learning ◽  
Performance Differences ◽  
Subject Variables ◽  
Independent Variable

120 volunteers learned a 12-pair list of 4-letter words of low frequency. The independent variable was feedback (positive only, negative only, or positive and negative), and trait anxiety (high or low) and sex (male or female) were used as subject-variables. For errors per trial, the interaction of feedback, anxiety, and trials was significant. Individuals low in anxiety performed poorly when exposed to negative feedback while feedback contingencies were not related to performance differences for the highly anxious individuals. The results are discussed in terms of task-related state anxiety.

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