Influencia de la ansiedad en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de tercer año de bachillerato.

Abstract

Abstract: Education accompanies us throughout our lives and educational institutions are constitute the place we spend many hours during childhood, adolescence and youth. In this environment, the teaching-learning process contributes to identifying problems that arise from students. The purpose of this research was know how anxiety influences the academic performance of third-year students high school from an educational unit in the city of Loja. The study population was made up of 47 students divided into 26 female and 21 male, It is a non-experimental design of a descriptive cross-sectional type with a focus quantitative, the instrument used was the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) composed of 21 items designed to evaluate the severity of anxious symptomatology. The results show that 55.3% of the investigated population that corresponds to the female sex suffer of anxiety symptoms and 43.12% represents the average of the entire population investigated the same one that determines that the total number of students of third year of high school, these types of effects impact academic performance and It can cause a deficit in the knowledge acquired, as well as dropping out of school.