High school students time management skills in relation to research anxiety

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the opinions of high school students relating to time management and present a correlation of their time management skills with demographic variables, as well as examining the relation between their level of research anxiety and time management skills. The study group composed 270 12th-grade students (127 males and 143 females) from the same socio-economic level attending seven state high schools in Ardahan province, Turkey. Pearson coefficient of correlation, t-test, and weighted mean and standard deviation values were used. Results showed a meaningful relation in the negative correlation (r = -0.188**, p <0.01) between time management skills and research anxiety level, and there was a meaningful relation between time attitudes, the second factor on the time management scale, and research anxiety in the negative direction (r = -0.210**, p <0.01). We conclude that as students' time management skills improve, their research anxiety level decreases.