Examining of the Exam Anxiety of 12th Grade Students Doing and Not Doing Sports in High Schools in Düzce

Emre Turegun,Alpay Alev

doi:10.5430/wje.v11n4p45

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In this work, it was intended to investigate the exam anxiety of 12th grade students doing and not doing sports in high schools in Düzce. Exams might be a compelling process that creates excitement and stress. All student experiences the impacts of anxiety in different manners during the exam period. Experiencing a level of anxiety affects exam performance, and this reveals exam anxiety as a problem. In this study, it is going to be examined whether exam anxiety distinct among 12th grade students who do sports and those do not. A total of 400 students including 200 who do sports and 200 who do not were applied to the "Test Anxiety Inventory". SPSS 21 was used for statistical analysis of the data. In this research, exam anxiety levels of 12th grade students who do sports ad who do not in high schools in Düzce were analyzed and interpreted according to different variables. In consequence of the analysis performed in terms of variables such as doing sports, gender, sportive experiences; it was concluded that the anxiety level of the female students who have been doing sports for 3-4 years is higher compared to the male students do not sports and have been doing sports for 5 years or more.

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Human being is in a learning process during the all of his/her life
In consequence of the analysis performed in terms of variables such as doing sports, gender, sportive experiences; it was concluded that the anxiety level of the female students who have been doing sports for 3-4 years is higher compared to the male students do not sports and have been doing sports for 5 years or more
Curiosity arouses whether certain characteristics of the students influence anxiety or not. To this respect, examining whether there is a difference between the students who do sports activities and do not do sports activities, this study aims to scale and interpret the anxiety of 12th grade students who are preparing for the university entrance exam, to determine their anxiety, to see the differences in terms of anxiety situations, and to determine the factor(s) that causes anxiety

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Human being is in a learning process during the all of his/her life. All the works that individuals learned and experienced forms the knowledge. The learnings we experienced in our lives constitute our performance. In other words, it is the way in which a person activates his experiences with his mind, emotion and behavior in the right time and situation. When a person can activate the full potential, the best performance comes out. Even though education and examination are under consideration to be inseparable, this system induces some problems for students. Anxiety that causes stress and distress related to the situation of the person depending on the process is "state anxiety". With the disappearance of these, situation-related anxiety disappears. Constant anxiety (perpetual anxiety) accompanies the person throughout his/her life and manifests itself more in some situations and spreads throughout his life (Baltaş, 2017)

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