Hyung Bae Park

A Study on Anxiety in College Freshmen

The authors studied anxiety, using Zungs Self-Rating Anxiety Scale(SAS), in the subjects of 3,499 male and 1,335 female college freshmen of Yeungnam University. The authors collected the reports of SAS during the periods from January to February, 1986, and applied ANOVA and t-test on anxiety scores in order to compare them between various psychosocial factors, and sexes. The results are as follows: There was significant difference in the mean averages of total anxiety scores between male and female students: male students scored , female students scored , (P