Some aspects of test anxiety and study difficulty in veterinary undergraduates at Peradeniya [University, Sri Lanka]
1982
Perera, K.M.H. (Peradeniya Univ. (Sri Lanka). Faculty of Medicine) | Srikandakumar, A. | Perera, C. | Jayakody, M.
Some aspects of test anxiety and study difficulties were studied in a group of 71 veterinary undergraduates of the University of Peradeniya in 1979/80. The instruments used were the University College London Study Difficulty Questionnaire (UCLSQ) and the Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI) of the University of South Florida. The study problems of the veterinary undergraduates were identical to those observed in a group of Sri Lankan dental undergraduates and resembled those of multidisciplinary groups of British undergraduates. The salient differences were a higher level of anxiety and depression and slightly higher levels of syllabus-boundness and work satisfaction in the two groups of local undergraduates in comparison with the British. Similarities were observed in obsessionality, low motivation, disorganization and somatization. The pattern of test anxiety in the local undergraduates closely resembled that reported for a mixed group of American undergraduates. Significant correlations indicated that those students who exhibited some aspects of study difficulty also had a high degree of test anxiety. On principal components factor analysis of the eight UCLSQ subscale scores which measured eight different aspects of study difficulty, three significant factors emerged. These were: a factor indicating anxiety per se, a low motivation disorganization and a syllabus-bound work satisfaction complex
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