Abstract
Aims: Anxiety has a great effect on students’ academic performance, especially among international students. Acculturation, discrimination, familiarity with the education system, weather, social support, and language limitation are among the main factors which contribute to anxiety among international students. This small scale study assesses the relationship between anxiety and academic performance of international students among postgraduate international students of in the University of Bedfordshire. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was carried out. A non-randomised purposive sampling of n = 105 postgraduate international students participated in the survey comprising of 66 male, 39 female. The findings indicate that anxiety is significantly correlated to academic performance. Workload, choice of coping with stress, future prospect, and change in the system of education are the major types of anxiety affecting our participants giving significant relationship when cross-tabulated with gender and/ ethnicity. Also in the aspect of difficulties in focusing on their studies, more than 50% disagree showing a significant relationship when compared with gender. Anxiety is seen as a tool to explain academic performance. Hence, it is important that this is considered to make their learning experience more fulfilling.
Highlights
Over the years, the number of UK international students’ increases which might contributes to the British economy and the international status of the British universities
The stress experienced through adjusting to a new environment creates anxiety but it is multiplied among international students; which leads to acculturative stress [14]
Students are seen as a group that can be affected by anxiety which has impact on their academic performances
Summary
The number of UK international students’ increases which might contributes to the British economy and the international status of the British universities. International students are involved in a wide range of knowledge and skills of various disciplines, and contribute to the workforce of their host country [2]. It is seen as a mutual benefit whereby international students gain academic achievement in their host country and they bring financial and other cultural contributions to the host country. Many students are faced with serious challenges such as environment, culture, food, language, educational system, weather and discrimination All these challenging factors accumulate to pose anxiety on the international students. This study will enable higher institutions to provide or improve on their support services to help students prevent any form of anxiety that may affect their better learning outcomes
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