Open AccessPERFORMANCE ANXIETY AND SLEEP PROBLEMS AS PREDICTORS OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
Author(s) -
Namra Shahzadi,
Misbah Arshad
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of research - granthaalayah
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2394-3629
pISSN - 2350-0530
DOI - 10.29121/granthaalayah.v5.i7.2017.2146
Subject(s) - anxiety , psychology , clinical psychology , academic achievement , cronbach's alpha , respondent , scale (ratio) , stepwise regression , arousal , insomnia , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , psychometrics , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , political science , law
The present study investigated performance anxiety and sleep problems as predictors of academic achievement among a convenience sample of 100 university students (Male = 43, Female = 57).
Method: The participants, aged 18 to 25 years, were selected from three different departments of University of Gujrat. Hamilton Anxiety Scale (Hamilton, 1959) and Pre Sleep Arousal Scale (Nicassio, Mendlowitz, Fussell, & Petras, 1989) were individually administered to the participants in their respective departments. Academic achievement was measured in terms of GPA of previous semester of each respondent.
Results: The Cronbach Alphas for both the scales for the present sample fell in acceptable range (α = 0 .84 - 0.87). Linear regression analyses indicated that performance anxiety significantly predicted (p <.01, p<.001) of low academic achievement among university students. It was also identified that the higher level of performance anxiety was also a strong predictor (p < .0.001) of sleep problems among students.
Conclusions: Discussion includes implications for future research and practices with reference to Pakistani culture.