Three Levels Of Anxiety

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Anxiety is an unexplainable feeling of nervousness of what might occur in a new environment, unaccustomed situation or any unusual experience to a person. According to Minahan and Rappaport (2013), anxiety affects the physiological, cognitive and behavioral aspects of a student. In line with this, the way they interact and respond to their environment varies in different levels. There are three levels of anxiety– mild, moderate and severe. Mild anxiety is the condition where an individual feels that something is different which needs immediate response and special attention. The individual focuses on his or her thinking ability and how he or she feel and protect himself. Moderate anxiety is when an individual feels nervous and focused on important things more than anything else. Severe anxiety is the highest level of anxiety where an individual believes that there is threat which needs an immediate response. (Nanda Nursing Institution [NNI],

Blanding et al (2005) reveals that test anxiety is just one of many factors influencing undergraduate students supporting their thesis statement that there is a significant but small inverse relationship between test anxiety and students’ General Point Average. A study conducted by Rana and Mahmood (2010) indicates that test anxiety has a significant and effective impact on their performance. Khalid and Hasan (2009) discloses high achievers experience less test anxiety as compared to low achievers. These findings are consistent with the study performed by Hill and Wigfield (1984). Moreover, there is a general psychological principle (known as the Yerkes–Dodson effect; Yerkes & Dodson, 1908), which suggests that performance will increase with anxiety only up to a point, and that when levels of anxiety become too high, performance then begins to