Exam Anxiety Pattern of Students based on Cognitive and Metacognitive Categories

Anxiety is one of the common characteristics of today's life and is due to various reasons, one of which is a university exam. The purpose of this study was to determine the exam anxiety model of the university students based on cognitive and metacognitive categories. The research method is of a Quantitative research based on the correlation approach. The statistical research institute includes undergraduate students from the state universities of Bushehr in the academic year 1399-1398. The sample size of the research is sampled for 250 people A proportional random was selected. In order to collect data from the Friedman anxiety question The Welsh Vahton's metasognitive beliefs questionnaire and Gilander co-workers' Cognitive fusion Questionnaire were used. The results showed that metacognitive beliefs are effective in the anxiety of the students' exam. Metacognitive beliefs are significant in cognitive fusion. Cognitive anxiety affects students' anxiety. All of them are significant Surface (α =0.05).