Relationship Between School Grades and Three Anxiety Indexes for Medical Students
Entering college is associated to changes that could challenge emotional stability and that might decrease the likelihood of academic success. With the aim of exploring the relationship between anxiety and academic performance of Medical students. 81 Mexican students participated in the study in a t...
| Autor Principal: | Torres Nolasco, Marisol; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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| Otros Autores: | Hernández Pozo, María del Rocío; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Castillo Nava, Pilar; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coronado Álvarez, Osmaldo; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cerezo Reséndiz, Sandra; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | spa |
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2009
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revPsycho/article/view/427 |
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Entering college is associated to changes that could challenge emotional stability and that might decrease the likelihood of academic success. With the aim of exploring the relationship between anxiety and academic performance of Medical students. 81 Mexican students participated in the study in a triple assessment session (Verbal, Behavioral, and Physiological). Instruments included the Zung Anxiety Text (Hernández-Pozo, Macías, Calleja, Cerezo & Del Valle, 2008), a list of potentially stressful events, a computerized task based on the Stroop emotional paradigm, and phyisiological monitoring of blood pressure and pulse before and after the behavioral task. A non-lineal relation between anxiety and academic performance was found. Results support previous findings pointing that high levels of anxiety are related to low academic performance. There was no difference in anxiety levels associated to gender |
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