An Investigation of Students’ Research Self-Efficacy and Research Anxiety Levels

Abstract

The goal of the current research is to present the degrees of students' scientific research self-efficacy and research anxiety as well as to look into the relationship between these two factors regarding various variables (department, gender, education level, profession, and having a scientific publication) in three departments; Special Education, English Language Teaching, and Science Education at Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University. The findings of this study showed that participants' levels of research anxiety are low, that gender, scientific publication status, and department have no bearing on students' levels of research anxiety, but that participants' levels of education and profession significantly affected those levels. Additionally, the participants' levels of scientific research self-efficacy were generally moderate, and factors including gender, current educational attainment, employment status, prior scientific publication, and program type had no discernible effects on these levels. Additionally, a relationship between students' degrees of self-efficacy in scientific research and their levels of anxiety regarding it was found to be moderately positive and significant.