2020 Volume 5 Issue 2 Supplementary
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INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF WORRIES ABOUT CONTROLLING THOUGHT AND ANXIETY ABOUT CORONA DISEASE IN PREDICTING LEARNING ANXIETY AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MAHSHAHR


Mahdi SHOMALI AHMADABADI, Zahra ROYAT, Fatemeh AGHAEI MEYBODI, Fatemeh HASHEMIAN
Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of concerns from controlling thought and anxiety related to the Coronavirus disease in predicting students' learning anxiety. This was of a correlational study. The statistical population included all high school students in Mahshahr. A total number of 132 people was selected by available sampling method and they answered Alipour et al.'s (2013) Corona Disease Anxiety Questionnaire, Wales and Davis's Worry Inventory (1994) and Pekrun, Goetz and Perry's Learning Anxiety Scale (2002, 2005), which were distributed through virtual networks. Data were statistically analyzed after being collected using Pearson correlation tests and multiple regression. The findings showed that there was a positive significant relationship between corona anxiety and worries and students' learning anxiety (P <0.001). The results of regression analysis also showed that anxiety and worried over corona disease play a significant role in predicting students' learning anxiety (P <0.001). Based on the results of the study, it is advised that students' learning anxiety be taken into account in the context of the prevalence of infectious diseases such as corona‎‎‎.


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