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Academic Anxiety: Relationships with Motivation and Attitudes Toward Learning Among Brazilian University Students

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The ability of students to regulate their emotions is essential for school and academic success. Academic anxiety in general and, more specifically, test anxiety is one of the major challenges faced by college students. Its effects interfere with the motivation to learn, attitudes towards learning, and academic performance, among other aspects. To know and characterize the academic anxiety of college students is of utmost importance. In this sense, this chapter aims to identify the academic anxiety of Brazilian college students and examine it in relation to motivational, attitudinal, and demographic variables of the sample. Data were collected by the scales of anxiety, motivation, and attitudes towards learning of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI - 3ed) and a questionnaire and analyzed by procedures of descriptive and inferential statistics. Suggestions for improving emotion regulation and reducing anxiety in Higher Education are presented.

The first author thanks the support of CNPq - Processes No 403620/2016-3 and No 304829/2018-8

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  1. State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

    Evely Boruchovitch & Sofia Pellisson

  2. Londrina State University, Londrina, Brazil

    José Aloyseo Bzuneck & Natália Moraes Góes

  3. Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA

    Taylor Wayne Acee

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Boruchovitch, E., Bzuneck, J.A., Góes, N.M., Acee, T.W., Pellisson, S. (2022). Academic Anxiety: Relationships with Motivation and Attitudes Toward Learning Among Brazilian University Students. In: Gonzaga, L.R.V., Dellazzana-Zanon, L.L., Becker da Silva, A.M. (eds) Handbook of Stress and Academic Anxiety. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12737-3_5

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