TEACHERS’ ATTITUDE AND TEST ANXIETY AMONG GYNECOLOGY STUDENTS IN NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY IN ANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

This is qualitative research that descriptively discovered the relationship between teachers’ attitude and test anxiety among obstetrics and gynecology students in Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Anambra south-east Nigeria. Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental disorders experienced by adolescents. As the students spend a significant length of time within a school environment, it is not surprising that teachers’ attitude has been linked to students’ mental health. Positive teacher-student relationship in primary school children have been found to improve pupil mental health outcome, with supportive teachers’ student relationship associated with reduced poorer teachers’ student quality. The findings in secondary school are recorded but there are no findings among tertiary school students. However, this study aimed to examine the relationship between teachers’ attitude and test anxiety existing in tertiary school among obstetrics and gynecology students. 400 medical students served as the population of the study. Test anxiety inventory (TAI) by Spielberge 1977 was adapted and used for collection of data. The instruments were face and construct validated. Internal consistency co-efficient values of 0.081 and 0.84 were obtained for test anxiety and teachers’ attitude scale respectively using Cronbach Alpha statistical method. Data were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient ‘r’ for ensuring research questions and to test hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this study revealed that teachers’ attitude had significantly positive relationship with gynaecology students’ test anxiety with no gender variation.