Test anxiety among students

Cilj ovog rada je ispitati povezanost ispitne anksioznosti s perfekcionizmom i obilježjima studiranja te akademskim postignućem studenata. Istraživanje je provedeno u sklopu kolegija: Socijalni rad i mladi društveno neprihvatljivog ponašanja, na Pravnom fakultetu, Studijskom centru Socijalnog rada u Zagrebu. U istraživanju su sudjelovali studenti tri smjera: Pravni studij, Studijski centar Socijalnog rada te Studij javne uprave i financija. U istraživanju je sudjelovalo 207 studenata. Kao instrumenti korišteni su: Upitnik ispitne anksioznosti (Test Anxiety Inventory; Spilberger i sur., 1978., prema Arambašić 1985.), Ljestvica pozitivnog i negativnog perfekcionizma (Positive and Negative perfectionism scale, PNPS; Terry short i sur, 1995.),Upitnik automatskih misli za vrijeme učenja i polaganja ispita (Živčić-Bećirević, 2002). Dobiveni rezultati pokazuju da postoji značajna povezanost između negativnog perfekcionizma i ispitne anksioznosti. Također je dobiveno da ne postoji statistički značajna razlika da studenti nižih godina studija imaju višu razinu ispitne anksioznost. Nadalje, postoji značajna povezanost da studenti koji studiraju duži niz godina imaju višu razinu ispitne anksioznosti. Rezultati su pokazali statistički značajnu negativnu povezanost između ispitne anksioznosti i akademskog postignuća te da su negativne automatske misli povezane s lošijim akademskim uspjehom, a pozitivne misli nisu značajno povezane s akademskim postignućem i duljinom studiranja.The aim of this paper is to examine the connection between exam anxiety and perfectionism and study characteristics and students' academic achievement. The research was conducted as part of the course: Social work and youth of socially unacceptable behavior, at the Faculty of Law, Study Center for Social Work in Zagreb. The study was conducted on students of three courses: Law School, Study center of Social Work and Study center of Public administration and finance. The study included 207 students. The instruments used were: Test Anxiety Inventory (Spilberger i sur., 1978., prema Arambašić 1985.) Positive and Negative perfectionism scale (Positive and Negative perfectionism scale, PNPS; Terry short i sur, 1995), Automatic Thoughts during Learning and Taking Exam Questionnaire (Živčić-Bećirević, 2002). The results showed that there is a significant correlation between negative perfectionism and test anxiety. It was also found that there was no statistically significant difference that students with lower years of study had higher levels of exam anxiety. Furthermore, there is a significant correlation that students who have studied for a longer period of time have higher levels of exam anxiety. The results showed a statistically significant negative correlation between test anxiety and academic achievement and that the negative automatic thoughts correlated with poorer academic achievement, but that the positive thoughts were not significantly correlated with academic achievement and the length of studying