The mediating role of students’ academic resilience in the relationship between self‑efficacy and test anxiety
نویسندگان
1 Department of Educational Management, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran
2 Department Educational Management, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
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چکیده
BACKGROUND: There is growing acknowledgment that medical education can be a stressfulexperience for students and may have a devastating effect on their psychological well‑being. Thepresent article, therefore, aimed at investigating students’ academic resilience as a mediating variablein self‑efficacy‑test anxiety relation.MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this cross‑sectional correlational study, a convenience sampleof 243 medical students was selected and participated, three prevalidated questionnaires wereapplied, that is, general self‑efficacy questionnaire, academic resilience questionnaire, and testanxiety questionnaire. To analyze the data, Pearson’s correlation coefficient as well as structuralequation modeling (SEM) were used.RESULTS: According to Pearson’s coefficients, self‑efficacy was found to be positively correlatedwith academic resilience (r = 0.437, P ≤ 0.01) and negatively with test anxiety (r = −0.475, P ≤ 0.01).SEM results also indicated that self‑efficacy positively impacts on academic resilience (β = 0.43,P < 0.001) and negatively on test anxiety (β = −0.37, P < 0.001). In addition, results demonstrated themediating role of academic resilience in self‑efficacy‑test anxiety relationship (β = −0.108, P < 0.001).CONCLUSION: This study showed that academic resilience could play a mediating role in students’self‑efficacy‑test anxiety relationship.
