PENGARUH KEMATANGAN AKADEMIK TERHADAP KECEMASAN AKADEMIK PADA MAHASISWA (STUDI PERBANDINGAN ANTARA LAKI-LAKI DAN PEREMPUAN)

Academic anxiety often occurs when students fail to cope with challenges and difficulties in an academic environment. In order to address academic anxiety, students need to have self-motivation, proper time management, focus, and responsibility, which are covered in the notion of academic maturity. Gender also appears to affect students’ ability to achieve academic maturity. The present study aimed to see the effect of students’ academic maturity on their academic anxiety. The difference in academic maturity in terms of gender was also investigated. A quantitative, non-experimental design was applied. The participants were the University of Muhammadiyah Malang students with an age range between 18-25 years old (124 male students, 295 female students), recruited using the accidental sampling technique. The data were collected using Academic Maturity and Academic Anxiety Scales. The study showed a negative relationship between academic maturity and academic anxiety, and academic maturity may predict 20.1% of the students’ academic anxiety. In terms of gender, the difference in students’ academic maturity was also noticed