Anxiety Study: Relationship between CGP and Anxiety Levels in Students

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Abstract
The 21st century is slowly becoming the breeding ground for all sorts of mental illnesses, of
which anxiety is the most common one and is spreading like wild forest fire. People are
constantly under pressure to perform well and outperform themselves every now and then,
and the epicentre of this pressure starts building during the young age itself. Here, the
pressure to score good in college and get into a good college is such a big deal that often
students are diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Anxiety is something which can arise in
a person due to many reasons, stress being one of the main reasons for the same.
Now while many people refute these claims and say that college is a cake walk and builds no
pressure on the young minds, it is rightly said that they often end up building so much inside
of them that it eventually turns their health upside down. Mental health is of great
importance, and in this study aims to explore the established hypothesis that people who
score well in college are in less pressure and have fewer anxiety levels than the ones who do
not. While there can be various other reasons for this stress, we shall aim to explore it in this
consistent manner. The study will be exploratory in nature and will aim to understand the
various factors which have led to the establishment of this hypothesis. The questionnaire has
been formed on basis of STAI. STAI is a commonly used measure of trait and state anxiety
and is measured on a four-point scale.
The results obtained from this will tell us about how this hypothesis will affect our
understanding of anxiety, and how we can go about it in young people, earlier in their age
itself.
Keywords: anxiety, stress, college, college, education, success

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................4
Methods............................................................................................................................5
Results...............................................................................................................................6
Discussion..........................................................................................................................8
References.......................................................................................................................10
Appendix A.......................................................................................................................11
Appendix B.......................................................................................................................13

Introduction
Anxiety is defined as a general term for disorders because of various causes of nervousness,
unease, fear, apprehension and the worry of everything. This can arise due to any reason, and
has no certain basis to be formed in a person.it can happen due to stress, overthinking, fear of
something and many more.
According to the American Psychological Association or APA (2011), anxiety is defined as
“an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and physical changes like
increased blood pressure” .
Anxiety has to itself many branching mental health illnesses and has to be taken seriously.
This thinking has changed over the years, unlike aa a few years ago where anxiety was
nothing but overthinking and mere tension in the mind, relived by speaking or writing to
people.
Anxiety has troubled a lot of people, and the current rate is alarming as well. It has troubled
the human civilisation for a long time, and if no particular understanding of it was achieved,
It could have worsened as well.
According to reports by the NIMH, an estimated 19% of US adult citizens are suffering from
anxiety disorders.
What is more startling of this is that anxiety disorder is a treatable condition, and yet, only
39% of the cases get treated or have access to treatment. This is highly alarming because this
can mean only two things: either people are unaware of their anxiety related problems or they
are unwilling/unaware of the channels that can help them get this treated for them. Either
way, this will be an undesired condition and has to be taken care of immediately.
Anxiety has many branches of disorders related to it and simply does not come or go by itself
alone. They are Panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
(OCD), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD) and borderline depression to name just a few.
These conditions might look harmless at first, but when understood completely and in-depth
that is when we can imagine the plight of the people going through and what all they suffer.
While this can affect the patient, it also has an effect on the people around them, and can
obviously bring them under this circle too. This makes it all the more important to ensure that
proper treatment is being given to the people suffering from anxiety.