Identification of Students’ Science Anxiety: Do Grade Level and Gender Affect It?

Nuwangi, Pohaci Puspa
Riandi
Widodo, Ari
Isnendes, Retty
Ayuningbudi, Fadjrina Hapsari Woro

Jurnal Penelitian Pendidikan IPA (JPPIPA)
Vol 11 No 1 (2025): January

This study aims to identify the level of junior high school students' science anxiety, determine the effect of the three indicators of science anxiety on the level of science anxiety, and explore the differences between students' science anxiety based on class and gender. The study was conducted descriptively quantitatively through a survey of 205 junior high school students in Bandung Raya, using the Science Anxiety Questionnaire instrument which was developed multidimensionally by measuring students' learning anxiety, test anxiety, and class anxiety. Parametric statistical tests stated that the three indicators predicted students' science anxiety, students' test anxiety was higher than other anxieties, there was no significant difference in science anxiety between females and males, and there was a significant difference in science anxiety between students in grades VII, VIII, and IX.