The impact of the comprehensive test anxiety on some of the physiological variables among Ph.D. students in the faculty of Physical Education at Al-Qadisiyah University

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the impacts of the comprehensive test anxiety(written and oral) among the Ph.D. students in the faculty of physical Education at Al-Qadisiyah University on some of the physiological variables (pulse rate, the number of times of breathing, the percentage of the issues oxygen, and the systolic and diastolic blood pressure). The researcher used the experimental method as it suits thenature of the study. The research sample consists of 8 students out of 10 students; the study population. 2 students were excluded for being developing chronic diseases. The pretests were conducted on the research sample for the comprehensive written test on Wednesday dated 27/11/2013, while the comprehensive oral pretest was on Friday dated 29/11/2013 . The post-tests were held on 28, 29/11/2013 at 9 am in the arena. The two tests contained (the number of times of breathing, pulse beating rate, the tissue oxygen pressure, and the diastolic and systolic blood pressure).The researcher used statistical treatments to deal with the net grades. The study came up with conclusions: there were significant differences on some physiological variables for the two groups of the comprehensive written and oral test anxiety in the pretest and the posttest. There were random significant differences between the two groups of the comprehensive written and oral test in the two posttests on the variables (pulse beating rate, and numbers of breathing) and the systolic and diastolic bloodpressure, while the ratio of tissue oxygen pressure was not significant between the twogroups.