STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANXIETY LEVEL AND LEARNING MOTIVATION IN ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

The influence of many external and internal factors, in particular psycho-emotional state, undoubtedly affects the cognitive, behavioral activity and the quality of learning of schoolchildren. Especially in adolescence, when the body undergoes great changes in both physiological and psychological development. The driving force in any behavioral activity is motivation. Studying and understanding the structure of schoolchildren's learning motivation makes it possible to develop new, scientifically based, effective pedagogical and psychological techniques for the correction and regulation of school performance. This paper studies the relationship between the properties of nervous processes, personality and situational anxiety with the structure of academic motivation of schoolchildren depending on gender identity. The study was conducted in secondary schools of Yakutsk among pupils of 7-8 grades aged 13.96±0.11 years in the number of 58 people (30 girls and 28 boys). The following methods were used in the study: determining the level of situational and personality anxiety C.D. Spielberger, the test "Diagnosis of the structure of schoolchildren's learning motivation by M.V. Matyukhina", measuring complex visual-motor reactions and tapping test in the APC "NS-Psychotest" (Ivanovo). The obtained results indicate that the largest number of schoolchildren is in a state of high level of anxiety. In this case, the properties of nervous processes correlate in girls with the level of situational anxiety, in boys - with the level of personal anxiety. The presence of gender differences in the dominance of educational motives has been revealed. Among girls the most significant are motivations not related to learning activities, among boys - related to the learning process itself. Also, the obtained results indicate the presence of reliable relationships between the level of anxiety and types of learning motivation. The greatest number of correlations was observed among boys.