Predicting Social Anxiety and Test Anxiety based on Identity Styles in Students

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

zohreh Rafezi ¹ , maryam akbari nobandegani ² , Mehdi Dehestani ³

1 - assistant professor of Faculty of Psychology&Education Allameh Tabatabai University
2 - payam e noor tehran
3 - , P.hD, University of Payam Noor Markazi

Received: 2017-10-21 Accepted : 2018-03-04 Published : 2017-12-22

Keywords: Social anxiety, Identity Styles, test anxiety,

Abstract :

The present study has been conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between Identity styles, social anxiety and test anxiety by correlational and descriptive method. The Population of this study included all of the second and third grade high School students of Fasa city in 2015-2016 academic year ,who among them, 200 students selected via multistage cluster sampling method as sample group and answered to. Connor social anxiety questionnaire (2000), Abolqasemi and et al Test Anxiety (1375) and Berzonsky Identity Style (1992). The findings of data analysis showed that there is positive significant relationship between informational identity style (P≤ 0.05) and diffuse- avoidant style (P≤ .01) with test anxiety but normative style did not show significant relationship with test anxiety. Also there were not seen significant relationship between none of identity styles and social anxiety. The result of multiple regression analysis showed that informational identity style and diffuse-avoidant style could significantly predict test anxiety (F=6.54, P ≤ 0.01) but none of identity Styles could predict social anxiety. Generally, the findings of the research indicate that test anxiety has stronger relationship with identity styles than social anxiety.