Levels and Symptons of Anxiety in Education Science Students

  1. Eduardo Melguizo Ibáñez 1
  2. Manuel Ortega Caballero 1
  3. M. Valverde-Janer 1
  4. Gabriel González Valero 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04njjy449

Journal:
Education, Sport, Health and Physical Activity (ESHPA): International Journal

ISSN: 2603-6789

Year of publication: 2022

Volume: 6

Issue: 3

Pages: 349-358

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.7529304 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDIGIBUG editor

More publications in: Education, Sport, Health and Physical Activity (ESHPA): International Journal

Abstract

Introduction: Currently, anxiety is a disruptive state that is very present in the lives of young university students. Objectives: The present research reflects the objectives of finding out the symptoms through which university students manifest anxiety and establishing the level of anxiety in university students according to gender. Methods: A descriptive, non-experimental, crosssectional study was carried out on students in the field of educational sciences. An ad hoc questionnaire was used to collect sociodemographic variables and the Beck Anxiety Inventory was used to collect data related to anxiety. Results and discussion: The the data reveal that, for symptoms of physical, physiological and cognitive character, the female sex shows higher scores, where in addition, it is shown that the female sex shows higher scores for mild, moderate and severe anxiety levels. Conclusions: Gender plays a key role in the channeling of anxiety.

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