Anxiety and Self-esteem among University Students: Comparison between Albania and Kosovo

Self-esteem, study skills, self-concept, social support, psychological distress, and coping mechanism effects on test anxiety and academic performance

“…A recent study conducted by Mustafa et al (2015) with students from Albania and Kosovo reported higher levels of anxiety among Kosovar students compared to students from Albania ( Mustafa et al, 2015 ). Different levels of test anxiety that were higher among Kosovar graduate students compared to those of undergraduate students have also been reported previously ( Duraku, 2017 ).…”

“…Therefore, researchers believe that culture itself has an impact on behavior and that with increased globalization influencing individual cultures, the need for understanding individuals as “embedded” in their families and cultural context has become very relevant ( Szapocznik and Kurtines, 1993 ). However, though the concept of test anxiety is widely researched around the globe, there is limited research through which levels of anxiety and other factors influencing academic performance among students have been measured within the Southeastern Europe Countries, including Kosovo ( Duraku, 2017 ; Mustafa et al, 2015 ).…”

Campus Adaptations of Engineering Undergraduates by Gender

“…Gender and emotional intelligence impacts emotional self-efficacy among undergraduates (Tariq, Qualter, Roberts, Appleby, & Barnes, 2013) making demographic determinants of gender, age and life environment on academic adaptation towards stress among first year students (Clinciu, 2013). Lastly though stress and its coping strategies differ among college students by gender (D. S. Lee & Padilla, 2014); self-esteem and gender was negatively correlated with anxiety among college students (Mustafa, Melonashi, Shkembi, Besimi, & Fanaj, 2015).…”

Anxiousness, Self-esteem, and Anxiety: Which Variable is a Predictor?

“…Social phobia, overanxious disorder, OCD, and simple phobia significantly predicted self-esteem, with social phobia having the highest impact on average self-esteem [13]. Studies on anxiousness are less frequent as features of a personality in relation to self-esteem, however, grounding from existed knowledge experienced anxiety of non-clinical sample and/or anxiousness relates to low self-esteem [25]. The people with high self-esteem experience more happiness, optimism, and motivation than those with low self-esteem, as well as less depression, anxiety, and negative mood [26].…”

“…We can also state that the studies on anxiety and anxiety disorders have been carried out throughout many cohorts of population, e.g. within the application of ontogenetic specification at cohort: children adolescents adults or the clinical point of view at cohort: patients diagnosed by anxiety disorder-patients diagnosed with other illness according to ICD-10-non-clinical sample [11,13,18,19,22,[24][25][26][27].…”