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Research Title:
The Levels of Anxiety of 2nd year BSTLE students, school
year 2014-2015 in relation to their Coping Mechanisms
that affect Academic Performances
Submitted By:
Banate, Caselyn B.
Fortes, Ryann Christopher A.
Submitted To:
Prof. Lilybeth Cruz
S.Y. 2014-2015
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to acknowledge the presence of those
people who
Helped and rendered a great moral support to us in
Accomplishing this research, to my cousin lace who
had been
Supporting me since the day I started to do this
research and to
My aunties who also helped me in this research and
correcting
My grammar and being there for me whenever I need
your
Guidance, to our colleagues for their cooperation in
answering
The survey, to our dear professor, Lilybeth
Cruz for being such a good teacher to us. I learned a
lot from you,
You taught us how to be responsible one. Youre so
nice maam.
Thank you very much for everything you taught to
us, and most
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS:
PAGE
NO:
TITLE
PAGE
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT........................
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CHAPTER I: THE INTRODUCTION
Hypothesis...
Significance of the Study.
Scope & Delimitations.
Definition of Terms.
Related Literature...
Theoretical
Framework..
Methodology...
Research Design.
Statistical
treatment..
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Data
Gathering
Procedure..............
Instrument..
CHAPTER IV: PRESENTATION & INTERPRETATION OF DATA.
CHAPTER V: SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS.
Summary...
Conclusion
Recommendations.
BIBLIOGRAPHY..
APPENDICES..................................................................................
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Survey Questionnaire.
Curriculum Vitae
Introduction
Background of the study:
Students are one of the most stressed-out people in the world.
A typical day in school is like a lifetime torment on earth-read loads
and loads of books, write tons and tons of notes and assay, and endure
endless hours of listening lectures from professors. Thus, students take a lot
of intestinal fortitude to survive the rigors of campus life.
Conceptual Framework:
INPUT OF STRESSOR
INFORMATION
1 Academic Course
a BSTLE
LEVEL OF ANXIETY
1 High Anxiety
2 Average Anxiety
3 Low Anxiety
COPING MECHANISMS
ACADEMIC PERFORMAMCES
AS AN OUTPUT OF ENERGY
Hypothesis:
This investigation was conducted to find out if there is no significant
relationship of level of trait-anxiety, coping mechanisms, academic course,
and academic performances among 2nd year BSTLE students, school year
2014-2015.
5 To find out if the three groups (high, average, low anxiety) differed in
the type of coping mechanisms used.
Definition of Terms:
1 Academic Course- Refers to the stressful informations such as
BSTLE course offered at New Era University that became a past
experience of the students that affect his/her level of anxiety.
CHAPTER TWO:
REVIEW OF
RELATED
LITERATURE AND STUDIES
The term stress has been used in different ways by different theorist.
Some such as Thomas Holmes (1979), demands. Richards Lazarus,
argues that stress is neither a stimulus nor a response. He concluded that
stress resides neither in the situation nor the person; it depends on the
transaction between the two. It arises from how the people appraise an
event and adapts to it. Wayne Waiten, analyses multidimensional to stress.
A potentially stressful event, such as a major exam, will elicit a subjective
cognitive appraisal of how threatening the event is. If the event is viewed
with alarm, the stress may trigger emotional (annoyance, anger, anxiety,
fear, grief), psychological and behavioural response. (Psychology Applied
to Modern life, 1991). This facts support the researchers view on stress as
a stimulus.
A study entitled Coping Patterns of High and Low anxious soldiers
acknowledges the effects of an individuals personal history on trait-anxiety.
It emphasizes that stressful energy on information such as family
background and demographic variables, personality differences, extension
and nature of perceived stress in combat and degree and nature of perceived
emotional supports received from the military organization, family significant
other persons affect degree of trait-anxiety.
(Dayan, N., 1984). This study supports the researchers first assumption on
stressor information in relation to anxiety.
On the other hand, the term state-trait anxiety was found on Charles
D. Spielbergers state-trait anxiety inventory emotional state or condition of
the human organism that varies in intensity and fluctuates overtime, its
intensity as expected to be high in circumstances perceived situations, while
the trait-anxiety (A Trait) is a relatively
Stable individual differences between people in responding to situations
perceived as threatening (Spielberger, C., 1970).
approach. However, this study used only ten defence mechanism that is
based in (C.M.I.) questionnaires, and these are the following:
a Denial- Refers to a negative fantasy where the egos displace its
anxiety by renouncing what the eye sees and the ears hear, the
language provide.
b Withdrawal- It is a pattern of behaviour characterized by the person
removing him or herself from normal day-to-day functioning with all of
its attendant frustrations, tensions, and disappointment. Here the
sense is of neurotic removal of self from normal social discourse,
accompanied by uncooperativeness and irresponsibility.
c Displacement- This refers to discharging pent- up feelings, usually
hostility on subject, less dangerous things, those which initially arouse
emotions.
d Atonement- If you atone for something wrong that you have done, you
say you are sorry, and try to make everything better again.
e Compensation- Seeking a substitute for something we do not have or
something attainable. Freud elaborated upon it extensively, viewing it
as one of the basic defence mechanisms that certain individuals use
to make up for particular deficiencies and to cover up the personal
shortcomings associated with them so as to prevent them from
reaching consciousness.
f Intellectualization- To distance oneself from the emotional experience
of a painful event by focusing solely on the cognitive and rationale
aspects, becoming very analytical and very objective.
g Sublimation- Refers to the diverting unacceptable channels that serve
society.
h Projection- Emotional rejection of unacceptable feelings or thoughts
through the process of attributing them to or seeing them in others.
i Aggression- Refers to an acts that involves attack, hostility, etc., that
are assumed to be motivated by fear or frustration, desire to produce
fear flight in others, or to push forward ones ideas or interests.
j Altruism- Refers to the elevation of welfare, happiness, interests or
even the survivals of others above ones own, behaves so as to
increase the safety, interests or life of others while simultaneously
jeopardizing ones own.
Theoretical Framework:
The theoretical framework of this study for anxiety is based on Charles D.
Spielbergers state-trait theory of anxiety.
According to Spielberger, the author of the S-T-A Inventory (STAI),
even of the objective methods of S-R Psychology (Behaviourism), have
helped to clarify the psychological as well as the behaviour reactions
produced by stressful experimental condition, still, they are not adequate.
Instead, he believes that one has to respond the role differences in
personality and the past experiences that influence the individuals appraisal
of and reaction to a particular situation. He used the term emotions refer
to complex qualitatively different feelings, state or condition of human
organism that both phenomenological properties. He also believes that the
long neglected phenomenological experiment properties of emotions must
be investigated in their own right. Spielberger claims that there has been
little research on identifying phenomenological aspect of emotional
reactions. Since 1972, his S-T-A Inventory has been used widely around the
world. He is the author of the 1978 Book Cross Cultural Research on Anxiety.
Like Freud and Bazowitz, et al. (1975), Spielberger regarded anxiety
as an emotional state that is consciously experienced-that anxious individual
can observe and describe his own unpleasant feelings.
His state-anxiety (A state) refers to a transitory emotional state or
condition of the human organism that varies in intensity and fluctuates
overtime. Its intensity is expected to be high in circumstances perceived as
threatening and low in non-stressful situation.
This research was also in accordance to the theory of learning.
Theoretically, learning is a relatively permanent change in behaviour brought
about experience. This theory of learning encompasses the classical
conditioning theory as a kind of learning in which previously neutral stimulus
comes to elicit a response through its association with stimulus that naturally
brings about the response. And the process the underline classical
conditioning was sought by researchers to explain why anxieties are learned
by individuals especially by students regarding their academic course.
CHAPTER THREE:
METHODOLOGY
Research Design
Quezon City
f x 100
=
n
Where:
f = frequency
n = respondents
% = percentage
Instrument
We used questionnaire as our instrument of gathering data.
CHAPTER FOUR:
PRESENTATION &
INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Table 1
Gender of the Respondents
Gender
Frequency
Percentage
Rank
Girl
37.5%
Boy
15
62.5%
TOTAL
24
100.0%
With the 24 respondents, 9 of them are girls and 15 out of all are boys.
Therefore, this 62.5% are boys and 37.5% are girls, states that boys are
much more on the Level of Anxiety that affect their academic performance
than girls.
Table 2
Age of Respondents
Age
16
Frequency
5
Percentage
20.8%
Rank
3
17
37.5%
18
10
41.7%
TOTAL
24
100.0%
Table 3
Frequency
Percentage
Rank
Yes
18
75.0%
No
25.0%
TOTAL
24
100.0%
Frequency
Percentage
Rank
Yes
10
41.7%
No
14
58.3%
TOTAL
24
100.0%
I am afraid of my Professors
The 10 students or 41.7% said that they are afraid when their
Professors scolded them in times of passing requirements. While the other 14
students out of 24 that we gathered data, said that they dont mind even if
they dont passed on their subject.
Table 5
Frequency
Percentage
Rank
Yes
17
70.8%
No
29.2%
TOTAL
24
100.0%
Table 6
Frequency
Percentage
Rank
Yes
16.7%
No
20
83.3%
TOTAL
24
100.0%
I am absent in class
The 4 students that sometimes absent in class is because they cant
handle the burden of all the requirements that they need to pass on time for
their grades and sometimes they said that cant understand on what the
Professor discussed. While the 20 students said that study hard for a better
life in the future.
Table 7
Frequency
Percentage
Rank
Yes
37.5%
No
16
62.5%
TOTAL
24
100.0%
CHAPTER FIVE:
Summary
This study aims to find out on how much effect of having an anxiety or
fear in academic performance in school or in class. Lots of student problems
lead to absence in class, easily discourage, afraid of their Professors, afraid
of making mistakes, and sometimes money problems.
Based on the data we gathered, we made a survey questionnaire that
answered by the 24 random BSTLE students in New Era University.
Conclusions
Based on all the data and result of the survey. We found out the following
conclusions:
1. The bigger percentage of the students under the having of an
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7.
Recommendations:
Since, the conclusion were based on the said level of significance, the
researchers wish to suggest the following:
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDICES
Coping Mechanism and Common Problem Survey
Age: _____
Gender: _____
CURRICULUM VITAE
I.
II.
Personal Data:
Name:
Nick Name:
Birth Date:
Course/Year:
Description:
Civil Status:
Religion:
Banate, Caselyn B.
Kc, Case, Cassey
November 29, 1993
BSTLE/4th year
Tender and Beautiful
Single
Iglesia Ni Cristo
Educational Attainment
Elementary:
Year Taken:
High School:
Year Taken:
College:
Course Taken:
V.
Educational Attainment
Elementary:
Year Taken:
High School:
Year Taken:
College:
Course Taken: