The Survey of the Role of Gender in Respect to Test Anxiety in the City of Urmia's Medical Sciences University Students in 2016

Test anxiety and exams are considered as substantial inhibitory factors against the university students academic achievement and there is found a subtle and in-depth relationship between the individual traits, which force the individual to respond and behave under special conditions and in particular situations, with mental and somatic inability resulting from anxiety and stress. Thus, the present study aims at the survey of the role of gender in respect to the test anxiety among the city of Urmia's medical sciences university students.

In the present descriptive-analytical study, 380 individuals from Urmia's medical sciences university students were selected based on a random method to participate in our 2016 research proposal. The information required for the current study was gathered by making use of a two-part questionnaire the first part of which was related to the demographic characteristics and the second part pertained to the test anxiety questionnaire designed by Pintrich et al. In the end, the data were analyzed by taking advantage of SPSS ver. 19, descriptive statistics, Pierson correlation test and independent t-test.

The current study indicated that the individuals’ average age was 21.72 ± 2.9. 196 individuals were male and 184 individuals were female. The total mean score of the test anxiety among the university students was found to be in arrange of 42.04 ± 8.56. The relationship between the age and the university students test anxiety mean score was not statistically significant but the relationship between the gender and test anxiety was found to be statistically significant and the men were found to have higher test anxiety levels in contrast to their female counterparts.