THE ANALYSIS ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRAIT ANXIETY LEVEL AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
ÜNİVERSİTE ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN SÜREKLİ KAYGI DÜZEYLERİ İLE SOSYODEMOGRAFİK ÖZELLİKLERİ ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİNİN ANALİZİ

Author : Yasin UZUNTARLA -- Necmettin CİHANGİROGLU - Sümeyra CEYHAN - Merve EROĞLU
Number of pages : 156-169

Abstract

This study aims to analyse the relationship between trait anxiety level and socio-demographic characteristics of university students. In this descriptive study, 370 students were reached between December 2014 and February 2015 in Bingöl University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. The questions for determining the social-demographic characteristics and “Trait Anxiety Inventory” which was developed by C. D. Spielberger et al. (1970) and which was adapted to Turkish by Öner and Le Compte (1983) were applied for collecting data. The analysis of the collected data was made by means of SPSS 22.00 statistics package program. As for statistical comparison of the data; independent t-test, mann whitney-u test, one-way analysis of variance were applied. The results of the research revealed that most of students (68,1 %) had high level of anxiety. The relationship between trait anxiety level and sex (p<0,001) as well as the relationship with the opposite sex (p<0,004), among socio-demographic characteristics, was determined to be significant.

Keywords

Anxiety, Trait anxiety, University students.

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