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Association between Anxiety, Quality of Life and Academic Performance of the Final-Year-Students in Latvia

Ieva BiteValdis FolkmanisInta ZileLilian TzivianIndra Krumina

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students’ quality of life050103 clinical psychologyLongitudinal studyAdolescentHealth Toxicology and MutagenesiseducationAnxietylevel of anxietyArticleQuality of lifeAcademic PerformanceLinear regressionmedicineHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesLongitudinal StudiesStudentsAssociation (psychology)Anxiety levelSchools05 social sciencesPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthRhigh-rated schoolsLatviaConfidence intervalgender differencesQuality of LifeAnxietyMedicineFemalemedicine.symptom050104 developmental & child psychologyClinical psychology

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The main objective of this study was to investigate the association between final-year students’ anxiety level and quality of life (QOL) with their academic achievements. A longitudinal study was performed in regular schools and in high-rated gymnasiums at the beginning and at the end of the school year. Multiple linear regression models were built for the association between level of anxiety/QOL with academic achievements. Type of school and gender—but not the level of anxiety—were the main predictors of academic achievements of 287 adolescents (e.g., for mathematics, the effect estimates were: β = −1.71 [95% confidence interval −2.21

10.3390/ijerph18115784https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/11/5784