Academic competition anxiety and its relationship to social support among distinguished students

Abstract

The current research aims to identify, Academic competition anxiety among distinguished students. Social support for outstanding students, to identify the correlation between academic competition anxiety and social support among distinguished and non-distinguished students. The research identified -distinguished students in secondary schools within the General Directorate of Education of Rusafa II and III in Baghdad, for the academic year (2020-2021). The researcher built a measure of academic competition anxiety by relying on the Martens model, whose number of items reached (30) items in three areas (cognitive), the number of items (10) items and (physical), the number of items (10) and (self-confidence) and the number of items ( 10) Paragraphs, and the researcher also adopted the House Scale for Social Attribution, consisting of (30) items that include four (emotional) domains, and the items of this domain have reached (8) items (performative), and the items of this field have reached (7) items and (informational) and it has reached Paragraphs of this field (8) paragraphs And (evaluative), and the paragraphs of this field reached (8) paragraphs, and the researcher extracted the psychometric characteristics and then applied them to the basic research sample of (200) male and female students who were randomly identified from secondary schools for the distinguished and distinguished and for the non-distinguished and distinguished, and after conducting statistical methods On occasion, the research. Reached the results, Existence of academic competition anxiety among distinguished students. The presence of social support for distinguished students. There is no correlation between academic competition anxiety and social support among distinguished students and by gender (males, females).