Academic procrastination and statistics anxiety

Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.

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“…In fact, Vahedi, et al, 2012 reported that almost 66-80% of graduate students experience statistics anxiety. This finding rhymed with Onwuegbuzie's, 2004 findings where 80% of graduate students experienced uncomfortable statistics anxiety levels. Students who experienced higher levels of statistics anxiety tended to perform poorly in statistics and statistics related courses like research and continually postponed assignments that involved statistics (Onwuegbuzie, 2004;Macher, Paechter, Papousek and Ruggeri, 2012).…”

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“…Notably, students' view statistics as a rather challenging and anxiety provoking course more so for those learners who have challenges with mathematics and related numbers, figures, and computations. Several studies have been carried out regarding statistics anxiety among students such as those of (Onwuegbuzie and Wilson, 2003;Onwuegbuzie, 2003;Onwuegbuzie, 2004;Williams, 2010;Liu, Onwuegbuzie, and Meng, 2011;Vahedi, Farrokhi, Gahramani and Issazadegan, 2012). Onwuegbuzie, et al, 2003 observed that many students experience high statistics anxiety levels and offering statistics as a course creates negative experiences to these students mainly because some academic background have nothing much to do with statistics.…”

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“…Statistics anxiety is real and present in institutions of higher learning in the world and Uganda in particular. Its causes include challenging attitudes towards statistics, procrastination, prior mathematics knowledge, nature of the subjects, teacher's personalities, learning strategies, among others (Onwuegbuzie and Delay, 1999;Onwuegbuzie, 2004;Baloglu, 2003;Macher, et al, 2012 and.…”

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Antecedents of Statistics Anxiety in a Higher Education System

Mwebesa¹,

Sumil²,

Hassan³

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This study contended that learning statistics and its rudiments were perceived as complicated compared to some other courses offered at the university level. Further, this investigation contested the existence of statistics anxiety among postgraduate students in an in-site university setting. Relationships and differences were determined in this study utilizing the constructs of antecedents of statistics anxiety namely academic procrastination, perfectionism, and gender. The objectives were (1) to establish the relationship between academic procrastination and statistics anxiety; (2) to find out the relationship between perfectionism and statistics anxiety; and (3) to investigate the differences between gender and statistics anxiety. The data from randomly selected 136 postgrad students (Kampala International University, Uganda) referring to dispositional (procrastination and perfectionism) and environmental antecedents (gender) and statistics anxiety were scientifically elicited, processed and analyzed utilizing the quantitativepost positivist's research paradigm model. The findings revealed a positive but insignificant relationship between academic procrastination and statistics anxiety; a significant adverse correlation between perfectionism and statistics anxiety; an insignificant positive correlation existed between gender and statistics anxiety, and differences in statistics anxiety between the female and male students existed. Notably from the results then, academic procrastination did not significantly affect the students' statistics anxiety; the students with higher levels of perfectionism tended to have lower levels of statistics anxiety while the levels of statistics anxiety among the female students were slightly greater than that of the male students.

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Antecedents of Statistics Anxiety in a Higher Education System

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“…Zeidner (1990) definiu ansiedade estatística como uma emoção caracterizada por extensa preocupação, pensamentos intrusivos, desorganização mental, tensão e ativação fisiológica quando os estudantes estão expostos aos conteúdos, aos problemas, às situações de sala de aula ou contextos avaliativos que envolvam a estatística. Esse estado físico e mental, experimentado por mais do que 80% dos estudantes de graduação, tem prejudicado o desempenho dos mesmos nas disciplinas de Estatística, Psicometria e Metodologia Quantitativa de Pesquisa (Onwuegbuzie, 2004;Onwuegbuzie & Wilson, 2003).…”

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“…A ansiedade estatística parece envolver um complexo conjunto de reações emocionais que, de formas leves, pode induzir a um desconforto menor. Nas formas mais graves, no entanto, pode resultar em resultados negativos, tais como apreensão, medo, nervosismo e pânico (Onwuegbuzie, 2004).…”

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Evidências de Validade da Escala de Ansiedade em Estatística em Alunos da Psicologia

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Santos

Silva

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Os alunos da Psicologia, com frequência, percebem o estudo da estatística e os dados quantitativos como obstáculos intransponíveis que mobilizam considerável ansiedade. Esta investigação teve como objetivo adaptar e gerar evidências de validade e fidedignidade para uma versão brasileira da Escala de Ansiedade em Estatística. Foram coletados dados com 397 estudantes de Psicologia, de ambos os sexos, nos campi de quatro universidades públicas e privadas do Rio de Janeiro/RJ. Os escores dos participantes foram submetidos à análise fatorial exploratória e confirmatória. Os resultados obtidos apresentaram evidências de validade fatorial e de consistência interna ao instrumento. Também foram apuradas diferenças estatísticas significativas nas medidas de ansiedade entre os sexos dos estudantes, entre as instituições e entre aqueles alunos que cursaram ou não a disciplina de estatística. Estes achados foram comparados com estudos realizados anteriormente com o instrumento. Concluiu-se que esta medida de ansiedade estatística poderá ser útil para a pesquisa psicológica fornecendo subsídios para o ensino e aprendizagem da estatística nos cursos de Psicologia.

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The relation between procrastination and symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in undergraduate students

Niermann

Scheres

2014

Int. J. Methods Psychiatr. Res.

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Procrastination is defined as the tendency to delay activities that have to be completed before a deadline. It is often part of psychotherapies for adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, procrastination is officially not acknowledged as an ADHD-related symptom. Therefore, little is known about the role of procrastination in ADHD. We investigated the relation between procrastination and ADHD-related symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity in 54 students with varying levels of self-reported ADHD-related behaviours. Various measures of procrastination were used, including questionnaires of academic, general procrastination and susceptibility to temptation as well as direct observation of academic procrastination while solving math problems. We expected a positive relation between severity of ADHD-related behaviours and procrastination, specifically for impulsivity. However, partial correlations (corrected for the other symptom domain of ADHD) indicated that only inattention was correlated with general procrastination. This specific and preliminary finding can stimulate future research in individuals diagnosed with ADHD.

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Academic procrastination and statistics anxiety

Cited by 361 publications

References 41 publications

Antecedents of Statistics Anxiety in a Higher Education System

Antecedents of Statistics Anxiety in a Higher Education System

Evidências de Validade da Escala de Ansiedade em Estatística em Alunos da Psicologia

The relation between procrastination and symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in undergraduate students

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