A Study on the relationship between self-efficiency, Social support and exam anxiety and the psychological health of the Men and Women Students in Allameh Tabatabaei University

SUMMERY: 

This survey has been carried out with the aim of studying the relationship between self-efficiency social support and exam anxiety and the psychological health of men and women students in Allameh-Tabatabaee University.

This survey is a correlative one. Being selected by cluster sampling, the participants were 300 undergraduate students (210 women and 90 men) of Allameh-Tobatabaee University in 2006 academic year. They were evaluated by Sherer self-efficiency questionnaire (1982), social support § questionnaire (1986), exam anxiety questionnaire (1996) and Goldberg general health questionnaire (1979). Research data was analyzed via the statistic test of Correlation coefficient and independent.

These studies showed that there is a relation not only between self-efficiency and psychological health but also between social support and psychological health. Moreover, it reveled that there is no difference between sexes when it comes to self-efficiency average, social support and exam anxiety. Nevertheless, the average of men's' psychological health was significantly lower then that of women.

The results generally revealed that self-efficiency and social support are influential in promoting psychological health and also that exam anxiety decreases psychological health