Freih Owayed El-Anzi’s scientific contributions

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Academic Achievement and Its Relationship with Anxiety, Self-Esteem, Optimism, and Pessimism in Kuwaiti Students.
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January 2005

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Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal

Freih Owayed El-Anzi

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between academic achievement and the following variables: anxiety, self-esteem, optimism, and pessimism. The sample consisted of 400 male and female students in the Basic Education College in Kuwait. The salient findings of the investigation were the significant positive correlation between academic achievement and both optimism and self-esteem - whereas the correlations were negative between academic achievement and both anxiety and pessimism.

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... According to our multiple regression analysis, anxiety was not significantly associated with academic performance. This finding is not supported by previous studies in Kuwait [36] and the USA [37], where anxiety was found to be significantly associated with academic performance and impact same. This rather contradictory result may be that anxiety can be a propelling element of high academic performance, as it drives students to invest tremendous effort in their academics, an observation that has been made by [38] in their study of Indonesian state university students, where severe academic anxiety can have an impact on the efficacy of a student's daily work. ...

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Exploring the relationship between mental health issues and academic performance of undergraduate students in a Ghanaian tertiary institution: a cross-sectional study
Academic Achievement and Its Relationship with Anxiety, Self-Esteem, Optimism, and Pessimism in Kuwaiti Students.
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  • January 2005

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal

Freih Owayed El-Anzi