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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Anxiety

Overview

  • Influence: Anxiety
  • Domain: Student
  • Sub-Domain: Emotions
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a negative impact
  • Influence Definition: An emotional state or trait that is a reaction to stress, potentially influencing performance positively or negatively. The most critical aspect is the coping strategies that children can be taught to deal with anxiety.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 11
  • Number of studies: 811
  • Number of students: 300,359
  • Number of effects: 1,770
  • Weighted mean effect size: -0.31
  • Robustness index: 5

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Anxiety Research Seipp Germany Anxiety and academic performance: A meta-analysis of findings 1991 Anxiety on achievement 26 36,626 156 -0.43
Communication Education Bourhis & Allen USA Meta-analysis of the relationship between communication apprehension and cognitive performance 1992 Communication apprehension 23 0 728 -0.37
Australian Journal of Psychology Harris & Cumming USA An examination of the relationship between anxiety and performance on prospective and retrospective memory tasks 2003 Anxiety on performance 70 0 70 -0.35
Book Erzen Turkey The Effect of Anxiety on Student Achievement 2017 Anxiety 151 115,086 151 -0.58
Learning and Instruction Loderer, Pekrun, & Lester Germany Beyond cold technology: A systematic review and meta-analysis on emotions in technology-based learning environments.  2020 Anxiety 30 4,049 51 -0.35
Studies in Second Language Acquisition Teimouri, Goetze, & Plonsky USA Second language anxiety and achievement: A meta-analysis.  2019 Anxiety on L2 learning 97 1,933 105 -0.77
Journal of School Psychology Fishstrom, Wang, Bhat, Daniel, Dille, Capin, & Vaughn USA A meta-analysis of the effects of academic interventions on academic achievement and academic anxiety outcomes in elementary school children.  2022 Anxiety reduction 13 1,545 13 0.63
Educational Research Review Fong, Krou, Johnston-Ashton, Hoff, Lin, & Gonzales USA LASSI's great adventure: A meta-analysis of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory and academic outcomes 2021 Anxiety 179 71,852 268 0.32
Conference paper Dong & Chiu China Foreign language anxiety and foreign language self-efficacy: A meta-analysis 2023 Foreign language anxiety 48 29,273 54 -1.06
Reading and Writing Li China Foreign language reading anxiety and its correlates: A meta-analysis.  2021 Foreign language anxiety 18 2,792 18 -1.48
Development and Psychopathology Brumariu, Waslin, Gastelle, Kochendorfer, & Kerns USA Anxiety, academic achievement, and academic self-concept: Meta-analytic syntheses of their relations across developmental periods.  2022 Anxiety on achievement 156 37,203 156 -0.12
TOTAL/AVERAGE 811 300,359 1,770 -0.41
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