THE COLLISION OF SELF EFFICACY AND GENDER ON TRAIT ANXIETY
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The study investigated the collision of self-efficacy and gender on trait anxiety in a sample of one hundred and sixty (160) undergraduate students of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). Their age ranged between 16–26 years with the average age of 21. It was hypothesized that self-efficacy and gender will not play any significant role in the participant’s reports of trait anxiety. ANOVA statistics used as a statistical package for data analysis showed that self-efficacy played a significant role in the participant’s reports of anxiety (183, df = 1, P>0.01) with participants who have low self – efficacy reporting higher anxiety than those with high self-efficacy. On the other hand, female and male students did differ in their report of anxiety. Discussion highlighted the important of self-efficiency as a personality attribute that moderate a person’s experience of anxiety.
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