The The Relationship between Self-Concept and Anxiety in University Students in the Health Sciences Field

Anxiety is a prevalent problem in people's health worldwide and in its field of research it has been linked to self-concept, theorizing a relationship between the two. For this reason, the objective of this research was to determine the correlation between the dimensions of self-concept and anxiety in university students in the area of ​​Health Sciences. A quantitative investigation was carried out with an empirical study using the associative strategy with a sample of 690 students from the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Technical University of the North of Ibarra, in which the self-concept questionnaire was used. AF-5 and the Hamilton Scale translated and adapted. The study results reveal that anxiety inversely correlates with all self-concept dimensions, indicating a negative correlation between the two variables. The correlation strength is high between anxiety and emotional self-concept (rs: 0.5<0.7) and moderate with the other four self-concept factors (rs: 0.3<0.5); furthermore, there is a highly significant relationship as ρ <0.01. It is concluded that the lower the level of anxiety, the higher the level of self-concept.

• Glavni autor: Méndez Guerrero, Gabriel Nikolas (author)
• Daljnji autori: Nicolalde Manzano, Mikaela Elizabeth (author), Oñate Porras, José Fernando (author), Mantilla Posso, Inés Margarita (author)
• Format: article
• Jezik: spa
• Izdano: 2024
• Teme: anxiety; self-concept; correlational study; university students; ansiedad; autoconcepto; estudio correlacional; estudiantes universitarios
• Online pristup: https://revista.sangregorio.edu.ec/index.php/REVISTASANGREGORIO/article/view/2724