Test anxiety in students of CEPRE - UNMSM cycle 2012-I

• Autores: Chávez Chacaltana, Hilda, Chávez Zamora, José
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2014
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.csi.unmsm:article/11266
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/psico/article/view/11266
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Test anxiety; emotionality; preoccupation; CEPRE-UNMSM 2012-I Cycle students; Ansiedad ante los exámenes; emocionalidad; preocupación; estudiantes del CEPRE-UNMSM

The present paper had the purpose of exploring test anxiety reactions in students of the CEPRE-UNMSM 2012 - I Cycle. The instrument used to gather the data was the Test Anxie- ty Inventory (Bauermeister, Collazo & Spielberger, 1982) that evaluates emotionality and preoccupation factors. The population was constituted by 800 students using an intentional non-probability sampling. The results indicate that 27% of the students present a high level of test anxiety, whereas 33.38% of the students have a low level test anxiety and 39.63%, a moderate level. In addition to that, regarding the gender, female students had a higher level of anxiety (17,13%) over male students (9,88%). Moreover, there was higher anxiety level in candidates of the following careers: Medicine, Law and Management.