Personal anxiety as a character trait in students during the process of studying at a university

Abstract

Objective. To study interrelation of personality anxiety (PA) with adaptation in students of medical university.

Materials and methods. A comparative study of PA and adaptation interrelation of 123 students of 1st, 4th and 6th years of education in Gomel State Medical University aged from 17 to 28 (20.48±2.3 years old) years old was carried out by means of clinical, experimental and psychological, and integrative test of anxiety in particular, as well as by statistical methods.

Results. It was established that the average value of integrative PA of medical university students, being close to a high level of expression in the junior years (5.93±1.96), gradually with the years of study, statistically significantly decreased in senior years of study (4.97±1.75, p<0.05). The greatest contribution to the formation of integrative anxiety in students was associated with the auxiliary components such as “assessment of prospects” and “asthenic component”, and to a lesser extent with the components such as “emotional discomfort”, “phobic component” and “social protection”.

Conclusion. High and even moderate PA of students contributed to better academic performance (p<0.0001) and successful adaptation of students (p<0.01), but high anxiety increased the risk of maladaptation in hardship (p<0.05). Monitoring of PA level using the integrative test of anxiety can help differentiated psychological correction in crisis maladaptation, and the pedagogical process of forming a mature personality of students mastering “helping” professions.