Test-taking anxiety among nursing & general college students.

Full Abstract

This study examined whether nursing students experience an unusual amount of debilitative anxiety in academic achievement, compared to general university students and provided senior psychiatric nursing students with a hands-on experience in research. A nonprobability convenience sample of 225 students was drawn from a university in the eastern United States. Alpert and Haber's Achievement Anxiety Test was administered to 94 nursing students and 131 general university students. Results indicated that nursing students do not have a statistically significantly higher debilitative anxiety than the general student population. However, all students experienced significantly higher levels of debilitative anxiety than were found by Alpert and Haber. Implications for academic nursing are discussed.

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Author information

Author/s: Brewer, Thomas (T);

Affiliation: University of Connecticut, School of Nursing, 231 Glenbrook Road, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. brewer(-atsign-)uconnvm.uconn.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services (J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Nov; vol 40 (issue 11) : pp 22-9

Dates: Created 2002/11/22; Completed 2002/12/13; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12448036, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Achievement
Anxiety - epidemiology; psychology
Educational Measurement
Humans

Students - psychology; statistics & numerical data
Students, Nursing - statistics & numerical data
Test Anxiety Scale
Universities

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