... The Study on the Perceived Effects of Anxiety on Academic Achievement And Perceived Strategies to Overcome Anxiety among IIUM Students SECTION 8: GROUP 5 Najlaa Binti Hassan 1213894 Balta Delila 1112551 Fairuz Shofi 1129992 Instructor: Nurul Fuadah Binti Mohamad Hassan Abstract Presence of depression may be seen from different point of views. Usually to say that someone is depressed should be followed by certain change in behavior. There are many different types of depression, starting from normal, occasional change in behavior up to the major depression. Purpose of this study was to examine the perceived effects of anxiety towards academic performance and perceived strategies to overcome anxiety among International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) students. A sample of 45 students was randomly selected from five different kulliyahs. Data were collected by using online questionnaire. It was found that the most significant effect of anxiety disorder on IIUM students’ performance was “passive attitude” and the most significant strategy to overcome anxiety among IIUM students was “efficient planning”. Therefore, it is concluded that there are few perceived effects on anxiety disorder towards academic performance as perceived by IIUM students and there are also many strategies that is useful to overcome anxiety disorder. Keywords: Anxiety, Academic performance, IIUM students, Effects...
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...What effects exactly do fairy tales have on children? In some stories, how come it is okay to get away with murder and still be the good guy? In “The Struggle For Meaning,” Bruno Bettelheim explains the psychoanalytical effect of fairy tales on children going through changes and struggles of growing up. Bettelheim provides analysis on how fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel offer children with support such as getting rid of separation anxiety and death anxiety, thematically prevalent in many stories. Separation anxiety is the natural unease a child feels when separated from a parental figure and death anxiety is the fear of death and detachment. While Bettelheim successfully describes how fairy tales provide a way for children to subconsciously battle their inner anxieties, more can be said about these developmental effects through the story of Hansel and Gretel. Bettelheim delves into the psychoanalytical aspect of fairy tales and their impact on the growth of children. He first introduces our innate desire to find meaning in life and the role fairy tales play in the lives of children as they attempt to understand this meaning and the world around them. Bettelheim suggests that “literature carries information best” (324), especially fairy tales which “stimulate imagination [and] help to develop intellect and clarify emotions” (325). Fairy tales enrich development subconsciously in children when they are most developmentally vulnerable and, as a result, assess real life situations...
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...Wholeness In this theory critique of The Anxiety Cure, Hart will provide strategies for dealing with anxiety. Hart has made a connection between the world of anxiety and stress and understanding the connection between anxiety and the effects anxiety has on our bodies. He also emphasized the importance of being aware of our bodies. Hart (2001) first explains how our brains natural tranquilizers are depleted through a combination of stress and high adrenaline. This combination set the stage for high anxiety (p. vi). Anxiety is produced due to a lack of important brain chemical called neurotransmitters, Hart calls them “happy messengers” (p. 4). Hart (2001) explains how being stressed or over extended; our brains are deficient in these “happy messengers”. Examples of these include serotonin or noradrenalin. We also have “sad messengers” that carry somber messengers. Some examples of these include cortisol and enzymes (p. 20). Knowing how to balance or restoring the balance of these messages can help us better control our stress and anxiety. To balance these messengers we must set stress level limits and know when to disallow other to cross these limits (p.24). To restore these messengers can include temporarily taking anti-anxiety medication, and focusing on the stress in your life and discovering ways to make life changes (p. 24). He also explains how stress is connected to the overuse of the adrenal glands (p.5). A mild form of anxiety is called a “panic attack” and the more...
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...From the moment a test is put down in front of me I feel the nerves begin. My palms begin to sweat, my legs shake and I start to bite my lip and look around as everyone is almost finished when I have not even turned to the second page of the exam. Test anxiety is something that I have struggled with as a student since the beginning of high school. It is something that I could not seem to get rid of no matter how hard I studied. I knew the material that was taught but my mind went blank. Testing for myself and many students can be a frightening experience but my anxiety would take over and falsely portray my knowledge as a student. It lowered my GPA, caused me to struggle daily in the classroom and made me feel embarrassed to admit where I...
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...How do you perceive a person walking down the hall with their head down, or a person who looks away when you try to make eye contact with them? Some people may think that they are snobby, but often that person may just be shy or have social anxiety disorder. Social anxiety could be mistaken for shyness very easily and the way people behave towards each other. Shyness has many different faces and different meanings to other people. Shyness can be known for a personality trait (Smith). Some people tend to think that shyness is just a phase and it only occurs during early childhood years. Others may mistake shyness as social anxiety or vice versa. Shyness and social phobia do have similar qualities; however shyness is not as extreme as social anxiety (Smith). As a parent, my mother was concerned about me when I was younger and went through the shyness phase. She was concerned that I may have social anxiety because I was so shy. After going to my pediatrician for any annual checkups, they discovered that it was just me being shy. My mom was one of the people who thought being shy was a good quality. Many people...
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...subjects. We will also discussed the possible reasons why students suffer from math phobia, math anxiety or arithmophobia, the cause and the possible result it gives to the students. First, let us give the definitions, descriptions, and symptoms of anxiety, Math anxiety and arithmophobia. Arithmophobia is simply defined as the fear of numbers. General Anxiety: * A feeling of unease, apprehension or worry. It may be associated with physical symptoms such as rapid heartbeat, feeling faint and trembling. It can be a normal reaction to stress or worry or it can sometimes be part of a bigger problem. * Anxiety is a complex combination of the feeling of fear, apprehension and worry often accompanied by physical sensations such as palpitations, chest pain and/or shortness of breath. Anxiety is often described as having cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. The cognitive component entails expectation of a diffuse and uncertain danger. Math Anxiety: * A feeling of intense frustration or helplessness about one's ability to do math. * Math anxiety is an emotional reaction to mathematics based on a past unpleasant experience which harms future learning. * An irrational fear of mathematics that can range from a simple discomfort associated with numerical operations to a total avoidance of mathematics and mathematics classes (Mathison, 1977). Mathematics anxiety has its roots in teaching and teachers and has been tied to poor academic performance of students...
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...Introduction An individual that suffer from dog phobias live their lives with anxiety that he or she will come into contact with a dog. He or she live their lives with the fear that the situation will get worse over time and that something bad might or will happen to them. In Sally’s case, she first needs to understand your phobia to be able to overcome it. It is important to her to know that phobias are common. Meaning of Phobia What is a phobia? The meaning of phobia is fear of something that is intense and persistent of that certain situation, activity, animal or person. The fear of dogs is known as Cynophobia. The main symptom an individual might have from this disorder is the excessive and unexplainable desire to stay away from that fear. The fear can become beyond the control of an individual which then can control an individual’s daily life. One example of a phobia is dogs. Phobias are one form of anxiety disorders. Signs and symptoms of phobias The symptoms of a phobia can range from mild feelings of apprehension and anxiety to a full-blown panic attack. Usually when an individual gets closer to the dog, he or she starts to have greater fear. Physical signs and symptoms of a phobia is an individual starts to have the following issues: difficulty breathing, racing or pounding heart, chest pain or tightness, trembling or shaking, feeling dizzy or lightheaded, a churning stomach, hot or cold flashes; tingling sensations or sweating. There are some emotional signs...
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...Woman Beats Anxiety Social anxiety is defined as the fear of contact with other people in social circumstances. It is the terror of being judged negatively by others or acting in a way that may result in embarrassment or mockery. For instance, suppose someone with this disorder is at a grocery store. While she is shopping, she is conscious that people are looking at her through the big mirrors on the inside front of the ceiling. She hates standing in line painfully waiting with this awful thought of people judging her. Now it’s time for her to talk to the person checking out her groceries. She faintly smiles and her voice sounds weak. Her feeling of inadequacy and self-consciousness eats her alive. Her name is Miranda Finberg. Currently living in Huntington Beach, California, this forty-two year old woman has been having a hard time facing her anxiety disorder since she was eleven. She claims it is a very confusing concept to understand at eleven years old, and “all [she] knew was something had happened to [her] and did not know what it was and when it would come back to haunt [her].” The number of panic attacks she had was new to her at the time. She can remember her first day of school in sixth grade where she sat crying in the bathroom for nearly half the day and had her mom pick her up at recess. Everything was too overwhelming for her: the new faces, her self-consciousness, and the all around nervousness she got from going to unfamiliar environments...
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...Social anxiety disorder, or also known as social phobia, is a fear of social situations that involve interacting with others. Those with social anxiety disorder feel like they’re always in the spotlight, being scrutinized for everything they do (Chansky, 2004, p. 148) and they try to avoid social situations as much as they can (Meyers, 2011, p. 662-663). Some physical symptoms of social anxiety disorder include stomach aches, shallow breathing, sweating, feeling hot flashes, feeling like your heart is racing, tightness in chest, feeling tense, or shakiness. According to the Canadian Mental Health Association (2012), about 8% of people will experience symptoms of social anxiety disorder at some point in their life and women were found to experience...
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...Many people do not understand the dangers of stress. Stress can cause psychosomatic disorders, and psychosomatic disorders develop anxiety, depression, and alopecia areata. Research has shown that therapy is the best way to treat psychosomatic disorders. Anxiety is a severe condition caused by stress, it is also a constant fear of one’s worries, and responsibilities. Work, school, and social interactions overwhelm a person who suffers from anxiety. In addition to feeling overwhelmed, one also experiences panic attacks, constant tension, and insomnia. Research has proven that cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify what causes one’s anxiety and how to overcome it. The National Institute of Mental Health (2016) stated, “Cognitive behavioral...
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...Facing The Ice “There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it” teaches Ovid. ( Andy 24) This means that one cannot achieve pleasure easily; he needs anxiety to push himself to the limits and overcome fear. Collier, a freelance writer with more than six hundred articles to his credit, published an article, “Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name “. He uses his personal experience and proves that we can overcome anxiety. Personally I do agree with Collier since I had to face anxiety in a way I never expected. In the article "Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name," Collier explains that anxiety is a very common part in our life and overcoming it instead of backing away is the only way we grow. Collier uses personal experiences, and shows his audience how he faced his anxiety which taught him lessons for the future .He was given a chance to travel with his roommate to Argentina, to work on a ranch. Collier had turned down the offer, since he already had made plans to teach his brother to sail. Turning down this opportunity, Collier learned a valuable lesson and developed a rule for himself: “do what makes you anxious; don’t do what makes you depressed”. ( Collier 95) When Collier was at graduate school, he began writing magazines articles and interviewing big names. Before each interview, he would get butterflies and his hands would start shaking (Collier 95). At one time, Collier had an interview with a musician that he admired, Duke Ellington. During...
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...Systematic desensitization is a type of behavioural therapy based on the principle of classical conditioning, which is used effectively to overcome various phobias and anxiety related disorders. It is also known as ‘graduated exposure therapy’ usually happens in three steps. The first step is the identification of an anxiety/fear causing stimulus hierarchy. The second step is learning techniques to cope or relax. Few such techniques are meditation, anti-anxiety medicines, breathing exercises and cognitive reappraisal etc. After completing the first two steps successfully, the person must use them in the third step to react to and overcome situations/fears in the formed hierarchy of fears. The purpose of this process is for an individual to learn how to cope with, and overcome the fear in each step of the hierarchy of fears. Exposure can be done in two ways: In vitro – An individual imagines exposure to the phobic stimulus. In vivo – An individual is actually exposed to the phobic stimulus. I personally chose Systematic Desensitization since as per me the best way to win a battle against irrational fear is to face it head-on, but considering the negative effects of sudden exposure to the fear/anxiety causing stimuli, it’s better so go step by step. With each step of stimulus...
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...different ways for treating patients suffering from anxiety. This essay seeks to look at some of these methods, aiming to uncover what these methods are, how they specifically target anxiety, what anxiety actually means on a biological and psychological level, and why hypnotherapy can be a good solution for some of the causes of anxiety(Gibb 2007). It is hoped that in the process of answering the question, a better understanding will be reached of the effects of anxiety and hypnotherapy, both in terms of its treatment and efficacy as a means of helping those suffering from anxiety. Before we can begin to look more closely at hypnotherapy, we must begin by arriving at some working definitions of anxiety. Anxiety stems from neural circuitry in the amygdala and hippocampus, both located in the limbic system within the medial temporal lobes of the brain. Although the hippocampus is more explicitly associated with memory, both combine to produce anxiety in human beings via a complex means of neural communication. Anxiety is not however, a mental illness but instead, a behavioural condition that is a reaction to biological causes. The first of these is an imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain. If the brain finds itself overloaded with substances such as adrenaline or epinephrine, or lacking in substances such as serotonin, the brain becomes more susceptible to stress (Rossi 1988). Any inbalance in these substances can lead to anxiety. Extended amounts of stress over a long period...
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...Dealing with anxiety is like going through a whirlwind of your own thoughts. They crowd your mind leaving little or no room for rationalized focused thoughts. It creates unwanted behaviors that take over our lives. Making you uncommunicative, antsy, controlling, or just nervous all of the time. Everything is Worst Case Scenario even if your rational brain knows everything will be fine. It can feel like a huge cluster of negativity hanging over you. No matter how severe or what part of your life anxiety controls it takes a toll on your everyday life. The two S’s or Social interactions and your school life are all controlled by over analyzation and thoughts of ‘what ifs’ creating stresses and struggles throughout life whether at home, school,...
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...they are forced to eventually overcome. In particular, women especially ranging from all ages suffer the worst and most when it involves the issue of self-hate. As a women I, have experienced the battle of self-hate, which has been very influential to my life in both a positive and negative aspect. From the time I was only fourteen years old, I have faced the battle of overcoming the self-hatred I developed amongst my inner self. The most commonly faced issue found amongst many women throughout the world is the issue of body weight. For many years, I myself struggled with facing that terrifying, horrific number on the scale. No matter how many times it has been stated that the number on the scale “does not define a person”, it didn’t change my own outlook. Turning to extreme measures to decrease my body weight seemed like the only solution. Although little did I realize, that not only would these extreme measures also come along with intense mood changes, but that it would affect my body both physically and mentally. The first idea that approached my mind was “just don’t eat, you will drop such a significant amount of weight that way, without even making any effort”; newsflash, that is the ABSOLUTE worst solution to turn to. As a cause of not eating, I happened to drop about 20-30 pounds within a time span of only two months, without even attempting to. Although, not only did it cause extreme mood changes (severe episodes of depression and anxiety), but it also caused my mind...
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