Exploring the Relationship Between Online Learning Trait Anxiety and Online Learning Academic Behavioural Confidence During COVID-19

Abstract

This study explores the relationship between online learning academic behavioural confidence (OLABC) and online learning trait anxiety (OLTA) during the COVID-19 crisis. The findings reveal that though students from multiple countries have experienced varied levels of anxiety, such anxiety has correlated positively with their OLABC. The researchers assume that COVID-19's deleterious effects on student online learning confidence have been moderated due to the prevalence of pandemic-related anxiety. Therefore, such anxiety has become passable and tolerated via adaptation and therefore should be viewed as “trait” rather than “state” anxiety. The researchers further believe that the quality of delivery methods is significant in determining the level of academic behavioural confidence, and hence, incessant and guided online teaching may produce a productive, effective, and interactive learning experience and uplift student ABC.