Keywords
Psychological Aspects
Students
Medical
Psychology
Performance Anxiety
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Abstract
Entering college is associated to changes that could challenge emotional stability and that might decrease the likelihood of academic success. With the aim of exploring the relationship between anxiety and academic performance of Medical students. 81 Mexican students participated in the study in a triple assessment session (Verbal, Behavioral, and Physiological). Instruments included the Zung Anxiety Text (Hernández-Pozo, Macías, Calleja, Cerezo & Del Valle, 2008), a list of potentially stressful events, a computerized task based on the Stroop emotional paradigm, and phyisiological monitoring of blood pressure and pulse before and after the behavioral task. A non-lineal relation between anxiety and academic performance was found. Results support previous findings pointing that high levels of anxiety are related to low academic performance. There was no difference in anxiety levels associated to genderThis journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.